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Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Quotes: But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop to it.
         

But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop to it.


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