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“Now that is the worst idea I believe ye’ve ever had. Women don’t let this sort of thing settle. For them, it simmers.”
“We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night
“What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night
“A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.”
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“The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night
“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night
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