“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.”
Jane Austen, in a letter dated Sept. 18, 1796.
“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books.” Henry W. Longfellow
“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.” Voltaire
“The only simplicity that is desirable is simplicity of soul, a certain singleness of aim and quiet detachment of vision, a mood of enduring repose not at variance with constant endeavour, a habit of content, contemplation and peace.” Bliss Carman, The friendship of art, 1904
“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.” William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.” Emily Dickinson“What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common sense.” Beatrix Potter
“A man’s country is where he’s well off.” George Eliot, Daniel Deronda.
“Feminism is the radical idea that women are people” As seen on a bumpersticker.¨
“There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, counfounding their enemies and delighting their friends.” Homer, The Odyssey
“Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.” Geoffrey Chaucer
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