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Paulette Jiles
“Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to Malaysia, a terrible blow to the spirit. It is worse than being penniless and more cutting than the blades of enemies.”
Paulette Jiles, News of the World

Anne Brontë
“[B]eauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.”
Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Paulette Jiles
“Maybe life is just carrying news. Surviving to carry the news. Maybe we have just one message, and it is delivered to us when we are born and we are never sure what it says; it may have nothing to do with us personally but it must be carried by hand through a life, all the way, and at the end handed over, sealed. He”
Paulette Jiles, News of the World

Ahmet Râsim
“The beauty of a landscape resides in its melancholy.”
Ahmet Rasim

William Strunk Jr.
“To air one's views gratuitously, however, is to imply that the demand for them is brisk, which may not be the case, and which, in any event, may not be relevant to the discussion.”
Strunk Jr., William, The Elements of Style

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