"Marriage is the tomb of friendship."

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Source : Hannah Webster Foster (1828). “The Coquette, Or, The Life and Letters of Eliza Wharton: A Novel”, p.34

Hannah Webster Foster

“The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.”
“One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.”
“Colonization was the idea that once slavery ended African-Americans should be encouraged - or required, in some people's view - required to leave the country. It's part of an attitude toward the abolition of slavery which says America should not be a slave society, but it can never be a multiracial society. You can never have free black and white people living together.”

Source : "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.
“I know you've been trying to get a hold of me, but I can barely get a hold of myself”

Source : Twitter post from May 24, 2012
“People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the problem - there is no meaning in everything.”
“In the face of an absolutely unprecedented emergency, society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization. Either we will change our ways and build an entirely new kind of global society, or they will be changed for us.”

Source : "How will everything change under climate change?" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2015.
“I think a primal role of a man in a relationship is to protect his woman.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Critical thinking is what leads to the next breakthroughs in any area.”

Source : Source: www.wbur.org

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