"Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned."

-- Robert Lembke

“A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.”
“My mother once told me that no women is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare.”
“I know that I'm freer as a hip-hopper than as an executive. Even as a black man, I enjoy more freedom as a hip-hopper than as a black man. That, s controversial to say, but it's the truth.”
“There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.”
“I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in consequence, are so thronged that the poor creatures are forced to work for the merest pittance.”

Source : Lillie Devereux Blake (1874). “Fettered for Life, Or, Lord and Master: A Story of To-day”, p.53
“Some truths are seen better through tears.”
“Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.”

Source : Emily Post (1905). “Purple & Fine Linen: By Emily Post”
“Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?”

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