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“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from t...”
“Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!”
“The most difficult thing for a wise woman to do is to pretend to be a foolish one.”
“But why," he said with animation, "do the English not read their own great literature?"Victor laughed triumphantly, and said, "Because at school they are made to hate it.”
“In my mind's eye”
“She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.”
“Here rests his head upon the lap of earthA youth to fortune and to fame unknown.Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth,And Melancholy marked him for her own.”
