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I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what…
To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…
The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

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Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from… — Douglas Adams
Sometimes I feel... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my… — Charles Studd
I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said. — Virginia Woolf
I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely… — Bliss Carman
This moment is your life. It is the process of living, the journey, that is life itself, and we often wish away… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
I often wish that folks would use Twitter for something more than sharing quotes — Unknown Author
I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller,… — Lydia Davis
For the most part, I meet people who are like 'I really like your work. I'm watching your career. I want to… — Michael Ealy
Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the… — Luther Burbank
There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a… — E. M. Forster
And I could weep at how mean people are and how they betray their fellow creatures, perhaps for the sake of personal… — Sophie Scholl
I remember those happy days and often wish I could speak into the ears of the dead the gratitude which was due… — Gwyn Thomas

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