"It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted ..."

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Source : Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.2376, Delphi Classics

Margaret Oliphant

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“To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.”
“I want people to get out of that nasty habit of needing a label. Every genre for each song is different.”

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“By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea, bursting up-often through oppression, unjust discrimination and prejudice-but through them all we are coming up, and with proper habits, intelligence, and property, there is no power on earth than can permanently stay our progress.”
“Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not only does right, but loves to do right.”
“A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully.”

Source : Meriwether Lewis, William Clark (1842). “History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the Sources of the Missouri: Thence Across the Rockey Mountains, and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean ; Performed During the Years 1804, 1805, 1806, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.146
“The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not occasionally through some striking facts to find that he had, at the end of all his criss-cross journeys, at last accomplished at least one step which was conclusively nearer the truth.”
“I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me.”
“Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start.”

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