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Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do. - [Aging] One of the fruits of Emancipation in the West Indian islands is the number of the ruins, either attached to the houses that remain or within a stone's throw of them: ruined slaves' quarters, ruined sugar-grinding houses, ruined boiling houses; often ruined mansions that were too expensive to maintain. - A High Wind in Jamaica [Books (First Lines)] Only the steady creaking of a flight of swans disturbed the silence, labouring low overhead with outstretched necks towards the sea. - The Fox in the Attic [Books (First Lines)]
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