"No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others."

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Ihara Saikaku

#Ease Quotes #May Quotes #Young Quotes

“Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future.”
“To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of time for a distant glory, and to labour in one age to enjoy the fruits in another. Gods would be needed to give men laws.”
“The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself.”
“The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.”
“Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.”
“The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.”
“Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or necessary decision.”
“Always do one thing less than you think you can do.”

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