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Madame de Stael

Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

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The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.

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The entire social order. . . is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.

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Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.

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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

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Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.

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Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

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Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to grow up just to work hard. What must I do, mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?" "The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read. Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must read every day, I know this is the secret

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All things change, nothing perishes.

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Southern women see no point in the hard way. Life is hard enough. So we add a little sugar to the sour. Which is not to suggest Southern women are disingenuous cream puffs. Quite the opposite. When you are born into a history as loaded as the South’s, when you carry in your bones the incontrovertible knowledge of man’s violence and limitations, daring to stay sweet is about the most radical thing you can do.

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