"Ah, what a sweetner of toil is loveâ€”love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no drudgery in the most menial employment where that is the motive power."

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Source : Martha Finley (1876). “Elsie's Motherhood: A Sequel to "Elsie's Womanhood,"”, p.297

Martha Finley

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“It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.”
“JosÃ© Antonio Primo de Rivera stated, â€œFascism was born to inspire a faith not of the Right (which at bottom aspires to conserve everything, even injustice) or of the Left (which at bottom aspires to destroy everything, even goodness), but a collective, integral, national faith.”

Source : "Falange: A History of Spanish Fascism" by Stanley G. Payne, (p. 31), 1961.
“You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d'etat imaginable.”
“It used to take years to become a junkie. But crack cut that down to 37 minutes.”
“All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.”

Source : Sigrid Undset (2011). “The Mistress of Husaby: Kristin Lavransdatter”, p.180, Vintage
“Lisa Lampanelli lost 100 pounds, but that's because she was poached for ivory.”
“We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump ability-relentl ess effort is in fact something rarer than the ability to engage in some finely tuned act of motor coordination.”

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