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Being an accepting human being means you are open to allowing others to be who they are. I mean, FFS if you can’t contort yourself to that bare-bones minimum of common human decency, how in the hell will you ever make your relationships
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“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.”
― Little Women
― Little Women
“You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play”
― Little Women
― Little Women
“Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.”
― The Rum Diary
― The Rum Diary
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