"How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception."

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Source : Alfred de Musset, Wilhelm Hauff (1925). “Two fables”

Alfred de Musset

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“You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.”
“To make the quickest progress, you don't have to take huge leaps. You just have to take baby steps-and keep on taking them. In Japan, they call this approach kaizen, which literally translates as 'continual improvement.' Using kaizen, great and lasting success is achieved through small, consistent steps. It turns out that slow and steady is the best way to overcome your resistance to change.”
“You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.”

Source : Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.128, Random House
“Life has abundant treasures, when your settings are on right.”
“I just want to leave a committed life behind.”
“How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is boundless, the more you search for it the greater the riches you will find; let us search unceasingly and let us not stop until we have found it.”
“A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.”
“After the event, even a fool is wise.”

Source : Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.2084, Delphi Classics

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