Her rejection as a child helps to explain her constant search as a woman for what she had missed. Even as Empress Catherine, at the height of her autocratic power, she wished not only to be admired for her extraordinary mind and obeyed as
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“I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“We human beings often see only what is before our eyes. But God in His infinite justice searches the heart and our secret motives and manifests accordingly to us His mercy.”
― Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
― Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
“They steal your bread, then give you a crumb of it…
Then they demand you to thank them for their generosity…
O their audacity!”
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Then they demand you to thank them for their generosity…
O their audacity!”
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“The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things.... It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.”
― Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer
― Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer
“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness."
-Edward Ferrars”
― Sense and Sensibility
-Edward Ferrars”
― Sense and Sensibility
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