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“Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Like everything else in the universe, we tumble toward those of higher mass.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Jane Austen, Emma