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Charlotte Bronte

If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar, weak sense, as a mere matter of sentiment.

Hate, Matter, Mean, Mere, Notion, Sentiment

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I would always rather be happy than dignified.

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Look twice before you leap.

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I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.

Demands, Laugh, Laughing, Left, Selfish, Soul

Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!

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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Assail, Conventionality, Independence, Lasts, Religion, Self

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Sue Halpern

Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.

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Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand

The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good. ' It is true that capitalism does -- if that catch-phrase has any meaning -- but this is merely a secondary consequence. The moral justification for capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man's rational nature, that it protects man's survival qua man, and that its ruling principle is: justice

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Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson

I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex.

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Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue.

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Anthony Horowitz

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

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