"Virtue, without the graces, is like a rich diamond unpolished--it hardly looks better than a common pebble; but when the hand of the master rubs off the roughness, and forms the sides into a thousand brilliant surfaces, it is then that we acknowledge its worth, admire its beauty, and long to wear it in our bosoms."

-- Jane Porter

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“In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.”
“It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.”
“Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.”
“Our assent to the hypothesis implies that it is held to be true of all particular instances. That these cases belong to past or to future times, that they have or have not already occurred, makes no difference in the applicability of the rule to them. Because the rule prevails, it includes all cases.”

Source : William Whewell (1968). “Theory of Scientific Method”, p.151, Hackett Publishing
“The only way you can get experience is from the clock. Time works with some people and against some people. Fortunately, the clock has worked in my favor.”
“nobody ever intends to be old.”
“Not to be such a perfectionist, it makes life hard. I'd like to be more relaxed about everything.”
“My favourite actors are all dead or dying. I just love Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn - I was named after her - and Cary Grant. I just love old black and white movies and the stars in them. It must have been a great time to be in Hollywood.”

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