"Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor."

-- Agnes Repplier

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“Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything--morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance.”

Source : William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.89, Belford Bros.
“How come I love having an episode of deja vu? It's akin to an out-of-body experience, I would think. It sits with me, happily, begging me to delve into my memory to find its match point.”
“The worlds of folklore and religion were so mingled in early twentieth venture German culture that even families who didn't go to church were often deeply Christian.”
“I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.”
“Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.”
“In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board.”
“Todayart is moving in a direction of which our fathers would never even have dreamed.We stand before the new pictures as in a dream and we hear the apocalyptic horsemen in the air.”

Source : 1912 Subscription prospectus of the Blaue Reiter Almanac, Jan.
“A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.”

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