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Now she glanced at the piles of books and papers on her desk. There are no chains, she thought, except those we create for ourselves. That, of course, was not entirely true: there were plenty of chains, real or imaginary, that people created for others--or that desks created, she thought...
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Alexander McCall Smith Peter Bailey (The Novel Habits of Happiness (Isabel Dalhousie, #10))