"The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I."

-- Matthew Arnold

“We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.”
“Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.”
“I can be a nice person, but if someone is messing with someone I care about, the tougher side comes out a little more.”
“I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.”
“The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.”
“The greatest love of all is happening to me.. So goes the popular song. It's a great song. It speaks to the heart, and deeply. It strikes powerfully to uplift the human spirit, at the quest for self-love and self-esteem, the pride in being alive that each of us is entitled to experience simply by being born a human being.”
“Alexia suspected Lord Maccon's handling was a tad more than was strictly called for under the circumstances, but she secretly enjoyed the sensation. After all, how often did a spinster of her shelf life get manhandled by an earl of Lord Maccon's peerage? She had better take advantage of the situation.”
“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.”

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