"I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds."

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Source : Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.269

Mary Wortley Montagu

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“Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.”
“We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.”
“I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who write who don't have it. They're tone-deaf, even though they're very fluent. It's an ability, like anything else, being a doctor or a veterinarian, or a musician.”
“I was a center in college but I was a high post guy, feeding cutters and rebounding. Going to pro ball, I clearly wasn't big and strong enough to play center against giants like Mikan so I kept evolving.”

Source : Source: alanpaul.net
“Shouldn't schools be the place where students interact with interesting books? Shouldn't the faculty have an ongoing laser-like commitment to put good books in our students' hands? Shouldn't this be a front-burner issue at all times?”
“We all have our strengths and our failings.”

Source : "New Girl: Hannah Simone on Playing Drunk and Schmidt's "Hidden Talent"". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. January 30, 2012.
“Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.”

Source : William Bligh (2009). “The Voyage of the Bounty”, p.43, BoD – Books on Demand
“I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It's all language, it's all communication.”

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