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When we grumble about our hard life, the Lords of the Land cry: “Listen, I’ve borrowed money on my plantation and I’m risking my land with you folks!” And we, hungry and barefoot, cry: “And we’re risking our lives with you!”
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
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“There may be coarse hypocrites, who consciously affect beliefs and emotions for the sake of gulling the world, but Bulstrode was not one of them. He was simply a man whose desires had been stronger than his theoretic beliefs, and who had gradually explained the gratification of his desires into satisfactory agreement with those beliefs. If this be hypocrisy, it is a process which shows itself occasionally in us all....”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.”
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“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
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