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Myanmar Gold

by M.A. Robinette (Goodreads Author)

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“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination

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“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

tags: abilities, clichés, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, feminist, gender, greatness, human-nature, husbands, hypocrisy, integrity, men, men-and-women, misogyny, penina-mezei, skills, stereotypes, strong, wives, women

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“A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.”
― Dorothy Sayers , Gaudy Night

tags: originality, quotations, thought

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“Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

tags: books, character-development, growth, reading

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