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“We forbid growth and therefore decay. Ambition, and therefore despair. Because each is only the warped relection of the other.”

— Catherine Fisher

“and then, instead of lamenting past calamities we might all cheerfully set to work to remedy them; and the greater the difficulties, the harder…

— Emily Brontë

“how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty—which was to step aside and vanish into history.”

— Frank Herbert

“Overindulgence in anything eventually enslaves.”

— Susan Hunt

“and that which is done of goodwill must, to my thinking, be accepted favourably. Had it been otherwise, methinks they had ere now been…

— Walter Scott

“What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation: of all the conflicts and all the sacrifices…

— Jane Austen

“Pain, as well as beauty, is necessary to give us perspective. We can place our suffering against the backdrop of time and allow our…

— Mary Pipher

“even there, where the rejection of the system is taken for granted and for that reason a lax and cunning conformism of its own…

— Theodor W. Adorno

“what was once associated with deafening, dangerous, and stultifying work could now be admired as historic creations and greeted with reverential, if only quasi-informed,…

— Kay S. Hymowitz

“Marvellous pitch of civilisation for us to have attained to, to be able to do such a thing! we must come soon to the…

— Rhoda Broughton

“. . . you would have had a protected, satisfied, laborious, and obedient people, taught to seek and to recognize the happiness that is…

— Edmund Burke

“Twas such a useless thing. And so unnecessary. Many had suffered for the actions of a few. Wasn't that always the way of things?…

— Maya Banks