"It is to hope, though hope were lost."

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Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.74

Anna Letitia Barbauld

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“Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”
“I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman.”
“Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.”
“Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.”
“Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages itself. It seeks itself: this is more than it has a right to do, because literature may be one of those things which deserve to be found but not to be sought.”
“Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.”

Source : Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.71, Vintage
“One day you too may experience what I have experienced. So right away go and practise.”
“I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.”

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