"Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed."

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Source : Baroness Orczy (2015). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.88, Xist Publishing

Baroness Orczy

#Virtue Quotes #Crushed Quotes

“Some pitchers want to be known as the fastest throwers that ever lived. Some want to win 30 games in one season. Some want to pitch a no-hitter. All I want to do is the best I can, day after day. In other words, I want to prove I am the best.”
“Any veteran can tell you it is already hard enough to see a doctor down at the VA and get the health care they were promised when they signed up to serve this country.”
“We cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeavor to harass, if we cannot destroy them.”
“As a young woman working in journalism, I assumed harassment and discrimination came with the territory and that you just had to get on with the job. As I rose to senior positions, it took me awhile to realise that just because I'd survived relatively unscathed didn't mean the younger women joining the profession would do so, and it isn't until you hit a certain age that the reality of ageism - which is much more acute for women - kicks in.”

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“It's always an honor and a scary experience to sing new music.”

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“Darren McCarty is a big video game guy, and he brings his systems with him on the road.”
“Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.”
“You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.”

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