"If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up like a fishing-boat in the great Norway horror which decorated our school geographies; for no woman had ever done such a thing, and I could never again hold up my head under the burden of shame and disgrace which would be heaped upon me. But what matter? I had no children to dishonor; all save one who had ever loved me were dead, and she no longer needed me, and if the Lord wanted some one to throw into that gulf, no one could be better spared than I."

-- Jane Swisshelm

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“If you aren't rich you should always look useful.”

Source : "Journey to the End of the Night". Book by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 1932.
“It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.”

Source : John Wyndham (2003). “The Day of the Triffids”
“More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.”
“The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.”

Source : Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.89, University of Chicago Press
“Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.”

Source : Sir John Suckling, Alfred Inigo Suckling, William Carew Hazlitt (1874). “The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling”, p.150
“Live in the moment, this moment, your moment. That is by far and without meaningful rival The Best Position to put yourself in to discover and delight in who your children turn out to be, whoever they turn out to be.”

Source : Source: live.washingtonpost.com
“When youre a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.”
“God knows the mess weâ€™re in when He calls us. His light shines greater through â€œcracked potsâ€ than it does through those who have it all together.”

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