"Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds."

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Source : Louisa May Alcott, Daniel Shealy (2013). “Little Women: An Annotated Edition”, p.602, Harvard University Press

Louisa May Alcott

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“The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses.”
“There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the same book repeatedly. Now she understood those rereaders differently ... she realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader-- because when a person is changing inside, there are inevitably new things to see.”
“Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.”
“Advice to anglers: don't take advice from people with missing fingers.”
“Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.”

Source : Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.78, Cambridge University Press
“A wise man once said that a person is known by the company he keeps, but could then also add that the character of the company is known by the people it keeps for the longest days, especially at the strategic decision making level.”
“In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.”
“No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language.”

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