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“I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.”
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“Lovelace was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it cant get no better than that, right?”
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“... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of both sexes, for neither suffers alone--is adverse to the happiness, to the development of conscience and to religion, and introduces to the dwellings of wretchedness and despair. The result of this degradation is pride, intemperance, licentiousness--nay, every vice, misery, and degradation.”
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“A child can learn what is right as easy as what is wrong and whatever impressions are made on the mind when it is plastic will remain there.”
Source : Joseph Devlin (2016). “How to Speak and Write Correctly”, p.91, Sheba Blake Publishing
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“The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.”
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“He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.”
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“Models are to be used, not believed.”
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“Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.”
Source : Phyllis Bottome (1943). “Survival”, Boston : Little, Brown
