"I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled."

-- Anne Rivers Siddons

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“I take my hat off to the ladies. The amount of grooming-plucking and shaving and all the other things men never have to do. I went down and spent time with transvestites in London in the clubs and all that. Got an insight to that world, and it's a mad world, but they are very warm and very open people. It was a great experience.”
“When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.”

Source : Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.19
“I am persuaded that not a novel in ten thousand is of any use to a child to fit him for life. The most are of use only to unfit him -- to blunt his senses and infect him with the writers' poor silly sentiments. Nine out of ten novelists deserve to be prosecuted under an Adulterated Emotions Act.”
“History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.”
“With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught.”
“The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.”
“A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.”
“I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.”

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