"The breath of liberty is sweet."

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Source : Mary Jane Holmes (1870). “Lena Rivers”, p.199, Рипол Классик

Mary Jane Holmes

#Sweet Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“What I am trying to get across to you; is please take of yourselves and those that you love; because that is what we are hear for, that's all we got, and that is all we can take with us. Are you with me?”
“I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performances.”
“And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.”
“If they need my C.V., they don’t know my work.”

Source : "Manifold destiny" by Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber, www.newyorker.com. August 28, 2006.
“Time is man made - No woman would have ever invented time.”

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“A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life.”

Source : Leslie T. Chang (2010). “Factory Girls: Voices from the Heart of Modern China”, p.61, Pan Macmillan
“I said that one of the causes, and the one that has created more excitement and dissatisfaction than any other, is, that the Government will not hereafter, and when it is necessary, interpose to protect slaves as property in the Territories; and I asked the Senator if he would abandon his squatter-sovereignty notions and agree to protect slaves as all other property?”
“Modern houses are so small we've had to train our dog to wag its tail up and down and not sideways.”

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