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“In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine...”
Source : Celia Rees (2010). “Witch Child”, p.8, A&C Black
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“We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.”
Source : Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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“What will happen, will happen.”
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“Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.”
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“Everyday sexual practices on college campuses need to be upended, and men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter.”
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“Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.”
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“Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance. Order is the law of all intelligible existence.”
Source : John Stuart Blackie (1881). “Lay Sermons”
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“The nice thing about England is that they actually speak English.”
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“Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure.”
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“I think that's becoming more and more of a priority, letting other aspects of life take precedent over making music, or just approaching the whole thing more holistically.”