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“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Much more genius is needed to make love than to command armies.”
― Ninon de L'Enclos

“Коли б робити було так само легко, як і знати, що саме треба робити, то каплички стали б церквами, а халупи бідарів — королівськими палацами. Добрий проповідник той, хто сам діє так, як повчає; а мені легше навчити двадцятьох, що вони повинні робити, ніж бути однією з тих двадцяти і виконувати свої власні повчання.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“I opened the door and blinked out into the bright hall. I had the impression it wasn't night and it wasn't day, but some lurid third interval that had suddenly slipped between them and would never end.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar