"When virtue was spoken of in the classical sense, for men, it always meant bravery or protecting others or being an adventurer and going out into the world - whereas a woman's virtue meant keeping her legs closed."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Molly Crabapple

#Men Quotes #Bravery Quotes #Going Out Quotes

“'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!”

Source : Carolyn Wells (2016). “Childhood Essentials Library - Carolyn Wells Edition: 29 Novels & 150+ Poems, Stories, Fables & Charades for Children (Illustrated): Patty Fairfield Series, Marjorie Maynard Collection, Two Little Women Trilogy, Mother Goose's Menagerie, The Jingle Book, A Phenomenal Fauna, The Seven Ages of Childhood, Children of Our Town¦”, p.4002, e-artnow
“God does not have a fixed plan that he must carry out; on the contrary, he has many different ways of finding man and even of turning his wrong ways into right ways...The feast of Christ the King is therefore not a feast of those who are subjugated, but a feast of those who know that they are in the hands of the one who writes straight on crooked lines.”
“The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.”

Source : Desiderius Erasmus, Erika Rummel (1990). “The Erasmus Reader”, p.313, University of Toronto Press
“My team is sabotaging me by not letting me sleep in my motorhome.”
“I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.”
“Some women just fight to fight. I fight to win.”
“It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar.”
“Eureka, Eureka! (I found it, I found it!).”

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