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One Quotes by Elizabeth von Arnim
- Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.
- Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.
- Life is an admirable arrangement, isn't it, little mother. It is so clever of it to have June in every year and a morning in…
- Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her. That turning of backs, that…
- If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what…
- On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines…
- [Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If…
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
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