"Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it."

-- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

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“I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault.”

Source : "Richard Hanna, GOP Congressman, Tells Women To Give Their Money To Democrats" by Laura Bassett, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2012.
“I've faced worse things in my life than prison”
“I want to look my best, but I'm not a model. I'm not an actress. I'm representing normal girls. It's OK to have a little bit of curve. I'm happy with my body. So many girls come up to me and say, "Thank you for being normal," and I'm proud of that.”
“Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.”
“Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?”
“It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.”
“One cannot afford to be a realist.”
“The resurrection morning is a true sun-rising, the inbursting of a cloudless sky on all the righteous dead. They wake transfigured, at their Maker's call, with the fashion of their countenance altered and shining like His own.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 519, 1895.

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