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If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
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A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
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A word after a word after a word is power.
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A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
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Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
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As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.
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Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
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Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!
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Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
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Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
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Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.
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For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.
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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.
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How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected.
Source: The Middle Ground (2013) 41 -
Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
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