Experience is a keen teacher; and long before you had mastered your A B C, or knew where the "white sails" of the Chesapeake were bound, you began, I see, to gauge the wretchedness of the slave, not by his hunger and want, not by his lashes
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“I said just now that the question of Faith in this sense arises after a man has tried his level best to practise the Christian virtues, and found that he fails, and seen that even if he could he would only be giving back to God what was already God’s own. In other words, he discovers his bankruptcy”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“He?” “Or she. Didn’t mean to offend her or misgender. But I’m not some supremacist, I’m super feminist.”
― Otherworldly
― Otherworldly
“Teenagers were the absolute worst. It was like an alien had come to earth one day, picked up my loving boy, and replaced him with a stinky, hairy mutant. Someone should’ve warned me.”
― Magical Midlife Madness
― Magical Midlife Madness
“Above her, the clouds were peeled back like a foreskin,”
― Otherworldly
― Otherworldly
“Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”
― The Martian
― The Martian
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