Phil Wade
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have never placed my opposition to slavery on a basis so narrow as my own enslavement, but rather upon the indestructible and unchangeable laws of human nature, every one of which is perpetually and flagrantly violated by the slave system.
“The novel [Pamela] is also a very powerful early expression of the modern self, one who sees her soul as equal in human worth and dignity to anyone, regardless of social class or power--and this, too, is part of evangelicalism.”
― The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
― The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
“My poalitics is just an auld wife's poalitics that wants to be left in peace by her fireside…”
― Witch Wood
― Witch Wood
“That is almost always the way with stories. True to their very core, even when the events and the people in them are different.”
― The Glass Sentence
― The Glass Sentence
“It seemed both proper and at the same time deeply unfair that so much of life was left to chance.”
― Small Things Like These
― Small Things Like These
“Trust not yourself; but your defects to know,
Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.”
― An Essay On Criticism
Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.”
― An Essay On Criticism
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