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“But two things are wanting in American civilization - a keener and deeper, broader and tenderer sense of justice - a sense of humanity, which shall crystallize into the life of a nation the sentiment that justice, simple justice, is the right, not simply of the strong and powerful, but of the weakest and feeblest of all God's children.”

Source : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.220, Feminist Press at CUNY
“We get a feeling, if we can, about what we think the company is worth.”
“There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen." "Life is what happens when you are making other plans.”
“I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late; And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped plate The words that I withdrew too late.”
“This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.”
“I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of one's lifestyle? Or, more than that, the way that people regarded you? The way they reacted to you if you had a Sir in front of your name?”
“If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.”

Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.55, Open Road Media
“Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.”

Source : Samuel Beckett (2012). “Murphy”, p.115, Faber & Faber

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