"A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth."

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Source : Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

Jane Welsh Carlyle

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“Only fools pity survivors their scars and you should never kowtow to fools”
“If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.”
“Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.”
“What went wrong is we had tremendous concentration in the sense we put a lot of our money to work against U.S. real estate. We got here by lending money, and putting money to work in the U.S. real estate market, in a size that was probably larger than what we ought to have done on a diversification basis.”

Source : "Charlie Rose" with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. November 25, 2008.
“The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.”
“To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.”
“When I don't understand things, I become passionate to understand.”
“In other countries they speak of nobility and courtesy, in London they practise it.”

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