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“That is a beautiful occupation. And since it is beautiful, it is truly useful.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“Of all bad deeds that, under cover of the darkness, had been committed within wide London’s bounds since night hung over it, that was the worst. Of all the horrors that rose with an ill scent upon the morning air, that was the foulest and most cruel.”
― Oliver Twist
― Oliver Twist
“During the daytime I glut myself with sorrow and lament, having my own duties to see to, and my house-maidens' work: but night falls and the world sleeps. Then I lie in my bed and the swarming cares so assail my inmost heart that I go distraught with misery.”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
“Feminism to Baby Boomers is like the Headless Horseman to Sleepy Hollow: everyone's got a story about how it destroyed a friend of a friend, but none of them have ever actually seen it.”
― HEY, U UP? (For a Serious Relationship): How to Turn Your Booty Call into Your Emergency Contact
― HEY, U UP? (For a Serious Relationship): How to Turn Your Booty Call into Your Emergency Contact
“The modern world, called "Christian" claims to have perpetuated the system called "Christianity," while, at the same time, it declares, that the miraculous gifts of the Spirit have ceased.
With as much propriety it might be contended, that the magnet “had been perpetuated, but had lost its magnetic properties; that water was perpetuated with all its virtues, but had lost its power to quench thirst, or seek its own level; that fire was still fire, but had lost its heat.”
― Key to the Science of Theology
With as much propriety it might be contended, that the magnet “had been perpetuated, but had lost its magnetic properties; that water was perpetuated with all its virtues, but had lost its power to quench thirst, or seek its own level; that fire was still fire, but had lost its heat.”
― Key to the Science of Theology
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