"it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop."

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Source : Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lyn Pykett (2012). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.157, Oxford University Press

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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“I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.”

Source : "Fictional 'Mothers' Reveal Facts Of A Painful Adoption Process". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 22, 2013.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

Source : A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859)
“If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.”

Source : c.1900 Quoted in Oliver Carlson Brisbane: a Candid Biography (1937), ch.5.
“A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.”
“How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a rescuer and not a midwife?”
“I didn't fall in love with you. I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way. I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we'd choose anyway. And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you.”
“Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.”
“Confidence is simply that quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face.”

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