“Happiness from long ago that hasn’t carried into today turns into a sadness that’s too much to bear.”
― A Gallery of Mothers
― A Gallery of Mothers
“She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.”
― Little Women
― Little Women
“You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well, and not be always saying, There’s this and there’s that—if I had this or that to do, I might make something of it. No matter what a man is—I wouldn’t give twopence for him’— here Caleb’s mouth looked bitter, and he snapped his fingers— ‘whether he was the prime minister or the rick-thatcher, if he didn’t do well what he undertook to do.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“Let's compete freely. Goddam tariffs! Free trade and free seas—that's what's right!”
― Tai-Pan
― Tai-Pan
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