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“His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.”
“It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
“Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.”
“Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.”
“We are all of us failures - at least, the best of us are.”
“For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.”
“Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.”
“I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”
“The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.”
“It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.”
“I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.”
“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.”
“Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”
“A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.”
“Life is a long lesson in humility.”