"You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it."

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Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.45, Vanderbilt University Press

Rebecca Harding Davis

#Patriotic Quotes #Grandfather Quotes #Glad Quotes

“Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.”
“Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.”
“A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.”
“Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.”
“A lot of people think, particularly the people who have benefited, that they're entitled to the fruits of their abilities, their labor.”

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“You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.”

Source : Jean M. Auel (2011). “The Clan of the Cave Bear (Enhanced Edition): Earth's Children, Book One”, p.681, Bantam Dell
“The traditional doctrine of man and not the measurement of skulls and footprints is the key for the understanding of that anthropos who, despite the rebellion of Promethean man against Heaven from the period of Renaissance and its aftermath, is still the inner man of every man, the reality which no human being can deny wherever and whenever he lives, the imprint of a theomorphic nature which no historical change and transformation can erase completely from the face of that creature called man.”

Source : Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1989). “Knowledge and the Sacred: Revisioning Academic Accountability”, p.162, SUNY Press
“Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.”

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