"September is the time to begin again. In the country, when I could smell the wood-smoke in the forest, and the curtains could be drawn when the tea came in, on the first autumn evening, I always felt that my season of good luck had come."

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Source : Eleanor Perenyi (2016). “More Was Lost: A Memoir”, p.29, New York Review of Books

Eleanor Perenyi

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“People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.”

Source : "Tea Party Victory Shakes Up New York Politics". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 22, 2010.
“Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.”
“We couldn't live without comedy.”
“If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.”
“Research: the distance between an idea and its realization.”
“Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.”
“Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.”
“I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.”

Source : Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.148

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