"How tedious is time, when his wings are loaded with expectation!"

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Source : Mary Collyer (1749). “Felicia To Charlotte: Being Letters From A Young Lady in the Country, To Her Friend in Town : Containing A Series of the Most Interesting Events, Interspersed with Moral Reflections ...”, p.286

Mary Collyer

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“We are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward equality of the races.”
“I like fireworks too, but I set them off in gardens or kebab stands. I never set fire to my own house.”
“Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and you will still be loved by a husband when beauty has faded.”

Source : Martine Leavitt (2016). “Keturah and Lord Death”, p.17, Highlights Press
“Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations ofÂ 'destruction' and 'waste'.Â Tuberculosis was known as 'consumption', that is, a wasting disease.Â ThenÂ economists came up with a bizarre theory, which has become widely accepted, according to which the basis of a sound economy is a continual increase in the consumption (that is, waste) ofÂ Â goods”
“I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me.”
“They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.”
“Fear, anger, stubbornness, and distrust portray themselves as your rescuers. Actually these energies only make you more closed off. Tell yourself: Nobody ever solved a situation by panicking; no one ever solved a situation by refusing to hear new answers; no one solved a situation by shutting down...”
“All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.”

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