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Rather than providing him with economic opportunity, the Act of that name seems designed to make the poor man do penance all his life for the sin of being born into a non-capital-owning family. . . One searches it in vain for measure designed to provide economic opportunity to the capital owner. But nobody proposes to educate, train, or rehabilitate either him or his children, even when their "unemployment" is notorious.

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Tracy Chevalier

I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home

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Over his shoulder I saw a star fall. It was me.

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I have spent my life waiting for something to happen,’ she said. ‘And I have come to understand that nothing will. Or it already has, and I blinked during that moment and it's gone. I don't know which is worse — to have missed it or to know there is nothing to miss. ’ Falling Angels

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I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.

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You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.

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It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become much bigger and much more important than you ever imagined.

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