“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Lady Windermere's Fan
― Lady Windermere's Fan
“In Siberian merchant weddings well into the 19th century, the bride's father would strike his daughter with a specially made whip, pronouncing the words, 'By these blows you, daughter, know the power of your father. Now instead of me, your husband will teach you with this lash.' The whip would be ceremonially passed from father to son-in-law.”
― Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America
― Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America
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