"Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child."

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Source : Susanna Moodie (2010). “Life in the Clearings versus the Bush”, p.356, New Canadian Library

Susanna Moodie

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“It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Any court which undertakes by its legal processes to enforce civil liberties needs the support of an enlightened and vigorous public opinion which will be intelligent and discriminating as to what cases really are civil liberties cases and what questions really are involved in those cases.”
“An honest, open environment can bring out the best in people.”
“Beware of turning into the enemy you most fear. All it takes is to lash out violently at someone who has done you some grievous harm, proclaiming that only your pain matters in this world. More than against that person's body, you will then, at that moment, be committing a crime against your own imagination.”
“Everybody's got opinions on the way you're livin', But see, they can't fill your shoes.”
“You know why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game.”

Source : Interview with Julius Mason, www.rydercup.com. September 14, 2004.
“When once experience taught me that I could work when I chose, and within a quarter of an hour of my determining to do so, I was relieved, in a great measure, from those embarrassments and depressions which I see afflicting many an author who waits for a mood instead of summoning it, and is the sport, instead of the master, of his own impressions and ideas.”
“The deep problem facing everyone is how to break free when being a prisoner is the only comfortable way you know how to live.”

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