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Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.

Ellis Peters
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Ellis Peters's Popular Quotes

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

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Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

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The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.

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Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.

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It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

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Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.

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Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.

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There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.

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Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!

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