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Emily Bronte: I am now...

Emily Bronte: I am now...

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient...

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Madeleine L'Engle: The naked intellect...

Madeleine L'Engle: The naked intellect...

The naked intellect is an extraordinary inaccurate instrument.

Source: A Wind in...

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Madeleine L'Engle: To be born...

Madeleine L'Engle: To be born...

To be born is to start the journey towards death.

Source:
-- Madeleine L'Engle,...

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Madeleine L'Engle: Sometimes idiosyncrasies which...

Madeleine L'Engle: Sometimes idiosyncrasies which...

Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has...

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Louisa May Alcott: Money is the...

Louisa May Alcott: Money is the...

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can...

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Jane Austen: Those who do...

Jane Austen: Those who do...

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Source: Pride & Prejudice, 1813.
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Jane Austen: Nothing is more...

Jane Austen: Nothing is more...

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an...

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Jane Austen: A person who...

Jane Austen: A person who...

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

Source: Miss...

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Barbara Jordan: I felt somehow...

Barbara Jordan: I felt somehow...

I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through...

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Geraldine Ferraro: You don't go...

Geraldine Ferraro: You don't go...

You don't go through a bloodbath like this and then walk away from it.

Source: In...

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Elizabeth II: It is easy...

Elizabeth II: It is easy...

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular...

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Elizabeth II: Work is the...

Elizabeth II: Work is the...

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

Source: In Quotable...

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Jennie Jerome Churchill: Life means work,...

Jennie Jerome Churchill: Life means work,...

Life means work, and hard work, if you mean to succeed.

Source:
-- Jennie...

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Paule Marshall: Sometimes a person...

Paule Marshall: Sometimes a person...

Sometimes a person has to go back, really back -- to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them --...

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Margaret Walker: The poetry of...

Margaret Walker: The poetry of...

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our...

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Carolyn Wells: We should live...

Carolyn Wells: We should live...

We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.

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Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: There is no...

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: There is no...

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by...

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Anna Julia Cooper: . . ....

Anna Julia Cooper: . . ....

. . . women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine...

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Joanna Baillie: Sweet sleep be...

Joanna Baillie: Sweet sleep be...

Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!
And if upon its stillness fall
The visions of a busy brain,
We'll have...

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Joanna Baillie: The mind cloth...

Joanna Baillie: The mind cloth...

The mind cloth shape itself to its own wants
And can bear all things.


Source:...

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