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Mary  Stewart
“The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.”
Mary Stewart

Hope Mirrlees
“A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.”
Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

Mary  Stewart
“Used every man according to his capacity.”
mary stewart, The Crystal Cave

Hope Mirrlees
“There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense.”
Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

Hope Mirrlees
“So fine a medicine is the will to action.”
Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

Hope Mirrlees
“Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.”
Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

Hope Mirrlees
“Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.”
Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

Hope Mirrlees
“But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can give
impudence to his betters!”
Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

Hope Mirrlees
“Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.”
Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

Hope Mirrlees
“It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.”
Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist