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“But that would be terrible queer, Anne. And what would Mrs Harmon Andrews say?"
"Ah, there's the rub," sighed Anne. "There are so many things in life we cannot do because of the fear of what Mrs Harmon Andrews would say. What delightful things we might do were it not for Mrs Harmon Andrews!”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams, 10 Books

“With opportunity the world is very interesting.”
― Beatrix Potter

“People who thus set their lives against destruction have necessarily confronted in themselves the absurdity that they have recognized in their society.”
― Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“There can be no such thing as a “global village.” No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it.”
― Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture