"In short I will part with anything for you but you."

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Source : Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.97, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Mary Wortley Montagu

“What if the house catches fire?â€ â€œRoast marshmallows. And if it floods, youâ€™ll go down with the ship. If thereâ€™s a tornado, Iâ€™ll meet both you and this house in Oz, after my shift. Got it?”
“There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.”
“The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.”

Source : Harvey Cox (1966). “The Secular City”
“We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again.”
“How terrible it is to be woman...but only because of men.”
“Industrialization created the Father's Catch-22:;: a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children.”
“Any writer knows he has to pay for his compliments. As soon as he has said, Why, thank you, that's very generous of you, the other person clears his throat and dives into his own writing experiences.”

Source : Mary Jane Ward (1983). “The snake pit”
“Hope is in the name of God, the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hope is when you compare your suffering to the infinite, immeasurable love and grace of God.”

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