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“Did the great Creator first draw her in a masterpiece, (9) And then touch life into his art? Or did he make her in his mind alone, Drawing on beauty’s every part? No—considering her singular perfection And her maker’s true omnipotence, I suppose her some quite unique creation In femininity’s treasure house.”
― The Recognition of Sakuntala
― The Recognition of Sakuntala
“I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!”
― The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings
― The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings
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― Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
― Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
“—He can’t wear them, Buck Mulligan told his face in the mirror. Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can’t wear grey trousers.”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
“When one says ‘ten o’clock’ or ‘three o’clock,’ this is not the grey and shrunken time of towns; it is the memory of a certain fulmination or declension of light that was unique to that time and that place on that day, a memory as vivid to the hunter as burning magnesium.”
― The Peregrine: The Hill of Summer & Diaries: The Complete Works of J. A. Baker
― The Peregrine: The Hill of Summer & Diaries: The Complete Works of J. A. Baker
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