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Abigail Adams: [A]rbitrary power is...

Abigail Adams: [A]rbitrary power is...

[A]rbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken . ....

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Tallulah Bankhead: It's one of...

Tallulah Bankhead: It's one of...

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work --the night...

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Charleszetta Waddles: You can't give...

Charleszetta Waddles: You can't give...

You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner...

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Rachel Carson: Every mystery solved...

Rachel Carson: Every mystery solved...

Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.

Source: In...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Wit consists in...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Wit consists in...

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Wit lies in...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Wit lies in...

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Love is the...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Love is the...

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: When a noble...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: When a noble...

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of...

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Susanna Moodie: Ah, Hope! what...

Susanna Moodie: Ah, Hope! what...

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of...

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Martha Washington: . . ....

Martha Washington: . . ....

. . . steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and cheerful as a cricket. . . .

Source:...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Truth-tellers are not...

Gwendolyn Brooks: Truth-tellers are not...

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

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Charlotte Bronte: Cheerfulness, it would...

Charlotte Bronte: Cheerfulness, it would...

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state...

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Ruth Benedict: The trouble with...

Ruth Benedict: The trouble with...

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

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Maria Montessori: And so we...

Maria Montessori: And so we...

And so we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which...

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Nelly Sachs: Bewitched is half...

Nelly Sachs: Bewitched is half...

Bewitched is half of everything.

Source: Bewitched is half of everything, line 1,...

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Barbara Tuchman: To be a...

Barbara Tuchman: To be a...

To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of...

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Carter Heyward: I'm a priest,...

Carter Heyward: I'm a priest,...

I'm a priest, not a priestess. Priestess implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those who oppose us...

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Virginia Woolf: On the outskirts...

Virginia Woolf: On the outskirts...

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Source:...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Since when was...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Since when was...

Since when was genius found respectable?

Source: Aurora Leigh, bk. 6, 1857.
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Joanna Baillie: O lovely Sisters!...

Joanna Baillie: O lovely Sisters!...

O lovely Sisters! is it true
That they are all inspired by you,
And write by inward magic charm'd,
And high...

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