"I verily believe that I never took infant in my arms that did not the moment it was there by its cries beg to be removed."

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Source : Dorothy Wordsworth, Alan G. Hill (1981). “Letters of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Selection”, Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; Toronto : Oxford University Press

Dorothy Wordsworth

#Believe Quotes #Arms Quotes #Cry Quotes

“Itâ€™s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.”
“There were so many different factions and that's I think what my father was taking issue with was the idea of, look, you can't go from male dominance to female dominance and expect anything to be better. We're all shits, ultimately, and we've got to do the best we can together.”
“A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.”
“People have paid for content. They always have.”
“Children know that if they have a question about the world, the library is the place to find the answer. And someone will always be there to help them find the answer-our librarians. (A librarian's) job is an important one. Our nation runs on the fuel of information and imagination that libraries provide. And they are in charge of collecting and sharing this information in a helpful way. Librarians inform the public, and by doing so, they strengthen our great democracy.”
“Give me a sport that is greater than wrestling, that's more dominant than wrestling and with more champions in fighting than with wrestling. There isn't. The sport that's king is wrestling.”
“At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.”
“The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the mind to acquire some comprehension of the vastness of space where rational understanding fails.”

Source : "Gustav Holst 1874-1934: A Centenary Documentation". Book by Michael Short, 1974.

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