Author: William Penn

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• Lisa Scottoline (1)
  • IN: Devil's Corner (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: do call the city to be laid out by the name of Philadelphia. Let every house be placed, if the person pleases, in the middle of its plat, so there may be ground on each side for gardens or orchards or fields, that it may be a green country town, which will never be burnt, and always be wholesome.
    FROM: Instructions to His Commissioners, 1681, (1681), NULL, UK
• Leah Fleming (1)
  • IN: The Glovemaker's Daughter (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Reader, whether young or old. Think it not too soon or too late to turn over the leaves of thy past life. And be sure to fold down where any passage of it may affect thee...
    FROM: The preface to Some Fruits of Solitude, (1718), Book, UK
• Elizabeth Jolley (1)
  • IN: Cabin Fever (1990) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK