Historia, desde los Ducket hasta la familia de Penny, son ficticias, al igual que el papel que cada uno de ellos desempeña en los hechos históricos que se describen. Al seguir la historia de estas fam...
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When people are angry, any insult will do; and prejudice is magnified into a cause.
Oranges and lemons Say the bells of St Clements You owe me five farthings, Say the bells of St Martin’s When will you pay me Say the bells of Old Bailey When I grow rich Say the bells of Shoreditch Wh...
Human nature, gentleman. It is original sin that leads men to misfortune, every time. I am a speculator in the market, gentlemen, and that is part of God's plan. Men only learn through suffering. So I...
But, she smiled, it seems to me he has a warm heart.
—Dicen —explicó el boyardo de Vladímir— que Alejandro ha dejado instrucciones a su familia para que le den Moscú cuando sea mayor. —¡Moscú! ¡Esa ciudad miserable! —No es gran cosa —convino el otro—, a...
«¿Pero la desearías si no te rehuyera? Ésa es la pregunta que cabe hacerse sobre una mujer.»
As I said,I believe in fate.Things happen as they are meant to be.We just have to recognize our destiny.
There it is, Toto.' Anna was pointing. [...] 'The Statue of Liberty.' There was hardly any need to move to the rail. The mighty statue towered over them. Its upraised arm, torch in hand, seemed to scr...
Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendour. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety.Sink of iniquity.In two thousand years, Paris had seen it all.
Frank Master wasn't really her lover yet. Though he didn't quite know it, he was still on trial. She found him intelligent, kindly, somewhat ignorant of opera, but maybe improvable.
And whether they were saintly or corrupt, scholars or scarcely able to get through the Lord’s Prayer in Latin, all society’s educated men had the Church to thank for their learning.
Supongo que la gente no ha parado de alterar las normas desde que los griegos inventaron la democracia o, incluso, desde que el hombre inventó la rueda.
Love might come suddenly, unsought, from a place not looked for, and stay for a while before departing into the distance, to a place where it cannot be reached.
Las calles tenían nombres descriptivos, acordes a sus condiciones y uso, como Pute-y-Muse (Puta Perezosa), Merdeuse (Mierdosa), Tire-Boudin (Tira-Vergas) y otros incluso peores.
La calle del Faubourg Saint-Antoine era muy larga. Comenzaba en lo que antes había sido un faubourg, un barrio de las afueras, situado al este de la ciudad antigua. Mucho antes de la Revolución, ya er...
In less than a month it would be the magical feast of Samhain. Some years this took place at the great ceremonial centre of Tara; other years it was held at other places. At Samhain the excess livesto...
Immediately across the bridge he encountered the other two. On his left, the Grand Palais, and on his right, the Petit Palais. If the great fair of 1889 had bequeathed Paris the Eiffel Tower, the next...
An unexpected guest, enjoying such lavish hospitality, should expect to sing for his supper.