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My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

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A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. ↗

— Henry Adams

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And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin. ↗

— Aeschylus

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It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers. ↗

— Aeschylus

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All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. ↗

— James Lane Allen

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It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

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