Denise
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They hang the man and flog the woman Who steals the goose from off the common, Yet let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose.
“Love, he assured her, inexorably burns itself out, or with distance is pulled up by the roots.”
― Daughter of Fortune
― Daughter of Fortune
“Knowledge is not of much use if you can’t defend yourself”
― Daughter of Fortune
― Daughter of Fortune
“Slavery had been quietly abolished ten years before. The African slave trade had never been profitable in these lands because there were no large plantations—although no one mentioned the fate of the Indians who had been deprived of their lands and reduced to penury, or the tenants in the fields who were sold or inherited with the property, like the animals.”
― Daughter of Fortune
― Daughter of Fortune
“Each instant he was away from her seemed life wasted in unhappiness, time stolen from love.”
― Daughter of Fortune
― Daughter of Fortune
“You won’t tire, Mr. Todd. Pursuing the cat is much more entertaining than catching it”
― Daughter of Fortune
― Daughter of Fortune
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