"How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,--a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich."

-- Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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“You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.”

Source : Guy de Maupassant (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Guy de Maupassant (Illustrated)”, p.1129, Delphi Classics
“When you have to work, work with a smile.”

Source : "When Kapil was king". Interview with Will Buckley, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2007.
“NO! Don't force yourself to be alone! If you're alive, you can meet that person, somewhere, someday! The person that will be glad that you're alive! You can't... you can't want yourself to die!! So... live.”
“In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose that's prospectively boring to strangers.”

Source : "So Much For That". Interview with Bret Anthony Johnston, www.nationalbook.org. 2010.
“We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.”
“As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There's a tea for that too. Somewhere in her mother's pantry, Laurel suspected, was a box of tea that said, 'In case of Armageddon, steep three to five minutes'.”

Source : "Illusions". Book by Aprilynne Pike, 2011.
“Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.”
“Women are the social conscience of a country. They hold our societies together.”

Source : Rajiv Gandhi (1987). “Selected speeches and writings”

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