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“ a disagreeable truth would be palatable through her lips, but i am the wretchedest being in the world at civil falsehood.’
‘I do not believe any such thing,’ replied Emma. - ‘I am persuaded that you can be as insincere as your neighbors, when it is necessary.”

“a rude poem promising ‘fame’s loud trumpet shall be blown’ for the man who ‘with a wedding kiss shuts up the mouth of Lucy Stone.’ ”

“the Rev. Theodore Parker preached in Boston in 1853. ‘To make one half of the human race consume its energies in the functions of housekeeper, wife and mother is a monstrous waste of the most precious material God ever made.’”

“Ideas are not like instincts of the blood that spring into the mind intact. They are communicated by education, by the printed word.”

“‘Cheshire Puss,’ she began, rather timidly as she did not know at all whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider.”

“Emma got up on the morrow more disposed for comfort than she had gone to bed, more ready to see alleviations of the evil before her, and to depend on getting tolerably out of it.”

Do you hear sighing.
Doctors sigh into wounds and the bloodstream is changed forever.
Flowers sigh and two noon bees float backwards.

“Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.”

A primeros de septiembre de 1883 se enteró Cantor de que Kronecker había escrito al matemático francés Hermite criticando los trabajos de Cantor como “humbug” (estupidez).

“The band at the far end of the hall, amplified to the din of an elephant charge, smashed and hewed at the tune as though in a holy war against silence.”