"Half the sorrows of women would be averted……" — George Eliot
"Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter."
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- I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and… — D. H. Lawrence
- Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and… — Cameron Diaz
- The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are… — Adolf Hitler
- Absolutely love the new campaign from the Optimum Population Trust: do your bit for addressing climate change by having fewer… — Jonathon Porritt
- It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to… — Elihu Root
- We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest… — Noah Feldman
- My life is one long daily, hourly record of answered prayer. For physical health, for mental overstrain, for guidance given… — Mary Slessor
- Catastrophe was only narrowly averted. It was all due to the faith of one man! Yes, you who called us… — Robert Ley
- Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the… — Charles Dickens
- So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned. — Michael Kinsley
- R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever?" it thought.… — John Thomas Sladek
- ... many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a… — Clifford Whittingham Beers