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Darin’s Quotes

“The most perilous moment for a bad government is one when it seeks to mend its ways.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution

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“Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: christmas, life, musings, poisoned

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“The circus arrives without warning.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

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“It's like my garden, love. Everything grows. Including love. And with that growing everyday how can you expect missing her to ever fade away? Everything builds, including our ability to cope with it. That's how we keep going.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Thanks for the Memories

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“So I was sold at last! A human being sold in the free city of New York! The bill of sale is on record, and future generations will learn from it that women were articles of traffic in New York, late in the nineteenth century of the Christian religion.”
― Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

tags: human-trafficking, slavery-in-the-united-states

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