“Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.”
― An Old-Fashioned Girl
― An Old-Fashioned Girl
“When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think”
― Dead Poets Society: The Screenplay
― Dead Poets Society: The Screenplay
“The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts".....Gerald O'Hara, Gone With The Wind.”
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“ 'Your beauty was the first that won the place, And scal'd the walls of my undaunted heart, Which, captive now, pines in a caitive case, Unkindly met with rigour for desert;— Yet not the less your servant shall abide, In spite of rude repulse or silent pride.' WILLIAM FOWLER.”
― North and South
― North and South
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