Mary Louisa Molesworth quotes

Mary Louisa Molesworth quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?”

Source : Michael A. Stackpole, Aaron Allston (2016). “The X-Wing Series: Star Wars Legends 10-Book Bundle: Rogue Squadron, Wedge's Gamble, The Krytos Trap, The Bacta War, Wraith Squadron ,Iron Fist, Solo Command, Isard's Revenge, Starfighters of Adumar, Mercy Kill”, p.1629, Del Rey
“Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work”
“I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.”
“Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions”
“The sea complains upon a thousand shores.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1856). “Poems ... Third edition”, p.241
“I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.”
“Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.”
“I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.”
“As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.”
“Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.”

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