"Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is necessarily a loafer."

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Source : Molly Elliot Seawell (1899). “The sprightly romance of Marsac”

Molly Elliot Seawell

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“We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.”
“The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.”
“The least I can give them is the best they can get from me. What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?”
“If we wish that the name Israel be not extinguished, then we are in duty bound to create something which may serve as a center for our entire people, like the heart in an organism, from which the blood will stream into all the arteries of the national body and fill it with life.”
“You shouldn't wallow in self-pity. But it's OK to put your feet in it and swish them around a little.”
“Hunger's a great spur.”

Source : "To be and to pretend". Interview with Alastair McKay, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2005.
“When in doubt, win the trick.”

Source : Hoyle's Games Improved, ed. Charles Jones (1790).
“The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.”

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