"[On New York City:] Were all America like this fair city, and all, no, only a small proportion of its population like the friends we left there, I should say that the land was the fairest in the world."

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Source : Frances Trollope (2015). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.315, Sheba Blake Publishing

Frances Trollope

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“To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.”

Source : Lucan (1722). “Lucan's Pharsalia”, p.156
“Death has no terrors for a sincere servant of Christ who is laboring to bring souls to a knowledge of the truth.”

Source : "A history of Christian missions during the Middle Ages". Book by George Frederick Maclear, p. 365, 1863.
“Anybody who is stupid enough often stumbles on an effect that could never be thought up by the most brilliant. I suspect that there is a thing which you might call the genius of stupidity.”
“In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.”

Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2012). “Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays”, p.37, tredition
“In short both the things we feel we need and the things available for us to buy depend largelyâ€”beyond some point, almost entirelyâ€”on the things that others choose to buy.”

Source : Robert H. Frank (2001). “Luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to Satisfy In An Era of Excess”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
“Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beatingÂ time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.”
“When people say negative things or speculate, you can't help but feel hurt.”

Source : "Ann Curry: ‘Am I Not Good Enough?’" By Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2012.
“I love to work. I have a passion for what I do.”

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