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“Her work was all she had or wanted. But there were times, like tonight, when she felt that sudden, peculiar emptiness, which was not…

— Ayn

“And as I worked, the strength returned to my arms and shoulders, and the hope to my heart - not the mad hope of…

— Jem Poster

“She felt whatever emotions she felt, but feeling was never a useful substitute for doing, and she never let the former get in the…

— Will Schwalbe

“It was a compound of self-reliance, hard knocks, heart hunger, unceasing work, and generosity. There was no form of suffering with which the girl…

— Gene Stratton Porter

“Without any display of doing more than the rest, or any fear of doing too much, he was always true to her interests and…

— Jane Austen

“She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy, that her…

— Dean Koontz

“Despite the crushing weight of the expectations placed on her, from the theological to the self-inflicted, what I needed was the last, selfless thought…

— Tammara Webber

“It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single…

— Ayn Rand

“It was characteristic of her that she remembered her failures as keenly as her triumphs, and that the passionate desire to obliterate, to "get…

— Edith Wharton

“Her experience had been of a kind to teach her, rightly or wrongly, that the doubtful honor of a brief transit through a sorry…

— Thomas Hardy

“She almost began to fancy herself unfeeling, when she found him so much more depressed than she was herself, and unable to feel it…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

“She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end—that riches, rightly used, are instruments of happiness, but…

— Thomas Love Peacock