"Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life."

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Source : Aphra Behn (1696). “The Younger Brother: Or, the Amorous Jilt. A Comedy ... Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. A. Behn. With Some Account of Her Life. [Edited, with Alterations and a Memoir, by Charles Gildon.]”, p.30

Aphra Behn

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“There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.”
“It's amazing that it's considered revolutionary to wear my hair the way it grows out of my head.”
“People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.”

Source : Leslie Feinberg (1998). “Trans liberation: beyond pink or blue”, Beacon Pr
“There is nothing more appalling than the wholesale way in which unthinking people plead to the Almighty the richest and most spiritual of His promises, and claim their immediate fulfillment, without themselves fulfilling one of the conditions either on which they are promised or can possibly be given.”
“Better to dream than to be.”
“Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.”
“many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.”
“It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating body, calmly considering the legislation initiated by the popular branch, and preventing any hasty or ill considered legislation which may come from that body, but it will never set itself in opposition against the deliberate and understood wishes of the people.”

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