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- I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up…
- No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles,…
- I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different…
- People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You…
- Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to…
- She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it…
- You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men.…
- There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without…
- I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I…
- Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to…
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- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
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