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oldfilmsflicker:

STATELY, PLUMP BUCK MULLIGAN CAME FROM THE STAIRHEAD, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

(megmess:brighteryellow:camanda:downinpockets:starsandsons:judesan:)

I was ninety-nine point nine percent sure I was dreaming.

There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.

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  198. fivefifteen reblogged this from suzywire and added:
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  217. morningbreaks reblogged this from suzywire and added:
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    six years old, I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about
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  242. presidents reblogged this from ohhello and added:
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  243. cynbob reblogged this from thou-art-a-villain and added:
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    On Friday, 12th June, I woke up at six o’clock and no wonder; it was my birthday.
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    It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New...
  254. angelicpretty reblogged this from funeral and added:
    ¿Encontraría a la Maga?
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    Alexander Perchov.
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  260. contrasts reblogged this from funeral and added:
    It began as a mistake.
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    It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
  271. missbenzedrine reblogged this from allymazing and added:
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  273. toonumb reblogged this from longlivethequeen and added:
    captainkirk:woahitsjuanito:musicalirony:christielouwho:(funwithfire:allshewrote:oldfilmsflicker:
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  291. lydiadeetz reblogged this from occlumens and added:
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  303. constantreader reblogged this from jeremydavies and added:
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  304. autismsucks reblogged this from jeremydavies and added:
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  305. likeraindropswefall reblogged this from jeremydavies and added:
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  309. woahitsjuanito reblogged this from the-doctor and added:
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  310. sitandwonder reblogged this from christielouwho and added:
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  312. the-doctor reblogged this from christielouwho and added:
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  313. feelingsaucy reblogged this from spanielhearted and added:
    It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
  314. christielouwho reblogged this from funwithfire and added:
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  317. funwithfire reblogged this from allshewrote and added:
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  318. schmolitics reblogged this from oldfilmsflicker and added:
    Jim Gallien had driven four miles out...Fairbanks when he spotted the hitchhiker standing...
  319. lemdi reblogged this from fishy and added:
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  320. fishy reblogged this from oldfilmsflicker and added:
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  321. allshewrote reblogged this from oldfilmsflicker and added:
    I was ninety-nine point nine percent sure I was dreaming.
  322. peachesbiensur reblogged this from spectra and added:
    1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.
  323. maiathebee reblogged this from oldfilmsflicker and added:
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  325. spectra reblogged this from oldfilmsflicker and added:
    The fabulous statistics continued to pour out...the telescreen. As compared with last year...
  326. fuzzyrush reblogged this from oldfilmsflicker and added:
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    It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
  336. amacadamia reblogged this from starsandsons and added:
    When he was nearly thirteen my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
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