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“The moral crisis she'd just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human being can be buffeted and over-mastered by fate had been borne in upon her with appalling force.”
― Baroness Emma Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

tags: compassion, discipleship, empathy, maturity, sympathy

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“The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.”
― Baroness Emma Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

tags: history, imagination, perspective, reading

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“Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief

tags: humor, superiority

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“As it says on the Tshirts:'I don't scare easily - I'm a librarian.', which was the polite version of the original:'Don't give me any of your shit - I'm a librarian.”
― Jasper Fforde

tags: a-thursday-next-novel, the-woman-who-died-a-lot

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“When I push the button on my laptop, it should start up. If it doesn’t, it can’t blame its nonexistent emotions. It should respond immediately and appropriately because that’s what it has been created to do.

In evaluating my parenting, I realized much of my anger with my children arose from my having the wrong perspective about them. I was viewing them as if they were machines.”
― Aaron Earls

tags: discipleship, maturation

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