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    William Shakespeare
    “I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a
    sacrament that should be taken kneeling.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    tags: achievement, beauty, clichés, distinction, empowerment, gender, gentleness, greatness, history, intelligence, self-determination, stereotypes, women
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
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    William Shakespeare
    “O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
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    William Shakespeare
    “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
    tags: inspirational
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Emily Brontë
    “And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you--haunt me, then!...Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
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    Cassandra Clare
    “They’re not hideous,” said Tessa.
    Will blinked at her. “What?”
    “Gideon and Gabriel,” said Tessa. “They’re really quite good-looking, not hideous at all.”
    “I spoke,” said Will, in sepulchral tones, “of the pitch-black inner depths of their souls.”
    Tessa snorted. “And what color do you suppose the inner depths of your soul are, Will Herondale?”
    “Mauve,” said Will.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
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    William Shakespeare
    “Villain, what hast thou done?
    Aaron: That which thou canst not undo.
    Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother.
    Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
    tags: sick-burns, yo-mamma-jokes
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    Robert A. Caro
    “But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary. ... But as a man obtains more power, camouflage becomes less necessary.”
    ― Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power
    tags: human-nature, power
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    William Shakespeare
    “Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
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    George Gissing
    “A womanly occupation means, practically, an occupation that a man disdains.”
    ― George Gissing, The Odd Women
    tags: gender-discrimination, sexism
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    William Shakespeare
    “Is he not approved in the height a villain that hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman? O that I were a man! What, bear her in hand until they come to take hands, and then, with public accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancour - O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
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    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: adventure, love
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Emily Brontë
    “He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: love
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    George Gissing
    “Heart-break is a very old-fashioned disorder, associated with poverty of the brain.”
    ― George Gissing, The Odd Women
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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  • #25
    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
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    Oscar Wilde
    “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: intelligence, quotation, wit
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    Oscar Wilde
    “If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
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    Victor Hugo
    “There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: humanity, misery, poverty
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    John Milton
    “Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
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    H.G. Wells
    “Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.”
    ― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
    tags: human-nature, intelligence, science
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    John Milton
    “What hath night to do with sleep?”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: night, paradise-lost, sleep
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    George Orwell
    “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical
    3855 likes



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