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“A daughter of Eve ... had better be fifty leagues offor in her warm bedor playing with a case-knifeor any thing you pleasethan make a man the object of her attention, when the house and all the furniture is her own.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“If Steam has done nothing else, it has at least added a whole new Species to English Literature ... the bookletsthe little thrilling romances, where the Murder comes at page fifteen, and the Wedding at page fortysurely they are due to Steam?
And when we travel by electricityif I may venture to develop your theorywe shall have leaflets instead of booklets, and the Murder and the Wedding will come on the same page.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
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