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“A man hits me--I hit the man a little harder--then he won't do it again.' Unfortunately he did do it again--a little harder still. The effort to hit harder carried on the action and reaction till society, hitting hardest of all, set up a system of legal punishment, of unlimited severity. It imprisoned, it mutilated, it tortured, it killed; it destroyed whole families, and razed contumelious cities to the ground.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Man-Made World

“Oh, no,” said Princess Sophie to her favourite rabbit friend, Hopper. “We have to do something. We can’t have Christmas without that special Christmas feeling. What can we do?”
― Mike Martin

“The only happiness of a heart of love dedicated to divine love is keeping feelings alive for the beloved soul.”
― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

“The earth was actually shuddering. It was as if you were a baby and your mother was shuddering with cold.”
― Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels