"The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces."

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Source : Howard Staunton (1847). “The chess-player's handbook ...: with frontispiece”, p.4

Howard Staunton

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“I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband.”
“The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.”

Source : Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 9th Edition”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
“The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.”
“America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.”
“The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.”
“Life You have been good to me.... You have not made yourself too dear to juggle with.”

Source : Lola Ridge (1920). “Sun-up, and Other Poems”
“What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.”

Source : Malcolm Lowry (1965). “Selected letters”
“I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and dun, Steals, like a star, my Baby's face. .... I will take up my work once more, As if I had never laid it down. Who will dream that I ever wore, In triumph, motherhood's sacred crown? .... Nevertheless, the way is long, And tears leap up in the light of the sun. I'd give my world for a cradle-song, And a kiss from Baby?only one.”

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