"In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves."

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Source : John Lothrop Motley (1858). “The rise of the Dutch Republic: a history in three volumes”, p.7

John Lothrop Motley

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“I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another.”
“Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.”

Source : Emily Oster (2013). “Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know”, p.14, Penguin
“Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate.”

Source : Perry Anderson (2005). “Spectrum”, p.76, Verso
“A square egg in a dish of lentils won't make a marrow bend with the wind, nor will it make rhubarb grow up the milkmaid's leg.”
“I plan on having parties when Iâ€™m 30. I plan on having fun when Iâ€™m old. Any notion of THE BEST years comes from clichÃ©d â€˜should haves â€˜if Iâ€™dâ€™ â€˜wish Iâ€™dâ€™”
“She had opened a door... and now she was walking with demons. And at the end of her travels, she would have her revenge... Pain had made a ***** of her.”
“One of the greatest abilities is to be able to take criticism”
“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”

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