"...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy."

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Source : Baroness Orczy (2015). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.31, Xist Publishing

Baroness Orczy

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“She has never messed up a single take yet. Recently I was in a scene and there was a table covered with a cloth. When the director said cut, I saw a black nose and two paws inching out from under the cloth. She had hidden there without making a sound until we were done with the scene. She wanted to be nearer to me.”
“Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.”
“Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my own neighbors, and to be taxed by my own representatives only. What will become of the law and courts of justice without this? The shadow may remain, but the substance will be gone. I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.”
“Nobody likes me,â€ he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest. â€œCanâ€™t imagine why,â€ Quinn murmured. I turned my snort of laughter into a fake cough, which was an embarrassingly feeble attempt at subterfuge when you consider the fact that I didnâ€™t have any lungs.”
“Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”
“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.”

Source : Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”
“At Girl Scouts, we create leaders.”

Source : "Leading with Distinction" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.
“Resolve and thou art free.”

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