"The English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country."

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Source : "Memoirs". Book by Maximillian, Duc de Sully, 1827.

Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully

#Country Quotes #Fashion Quotes #Insulting Quotes

“Our minds are confused, but not our souls.”
“Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm, syntax, image and metaphor. Reading it-the best of it-can create another, very different kind of perpetual present, an awareness that can be as ongoing in the soul as the stop-time of trauma.”
“Failure is not an option. Success is just a process.”

Source : Song: Legendary, Album: Ambition, 2011
“If Americans could legally access prescription drugs outside the United States, then drug companies would be forced to re-evaluate their pricing strategy.”
“Birth is what women do. Women are privileged to stand in such power! Birth stretches a woman's limits in every sense. To allow such stretching of one's limits is the challenge of pregnancy, birth, and parenting. The challenge is to be fully present and to allow the process because of inner trust.”
“What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.”
“Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.”
“When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys.”

Source : "Coming of Age with Judy Blume". www.nytimes.com. December 3, 1978.

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