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Weakness, he has learned, isn't in the arm or the leg or the back. Weakness is in the mind.
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Questions are answered not when you want an answer but when the time for answers is right.
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Because sometimes it doesn't help to chase after the thing you want. No. Sometimes you have to wait, however long it takes, until what you want most comes to you.
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Help me, Mother,' Peggy said, and tears came to her eyes as they always did when she spoke to her, because she would never get over the emptiness of a world that no longer held her mother.
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Kat hates men like that, men who are too attractive for their own good-and know it.
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Eleanor Herman |
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He rubs his forehead, frustrated, then raises his eyes, one dark brown, one gray-blue--the
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When the destiny of a nation is in a woman's bedroom, the best place for the historian is in the antechamber. -- CHARLES-AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE
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But as the late- seventeenth-century philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz said, 'To be neutral is rather like someone who lives in the middle of a house and is smoked out from below and drenched with urine from above.
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neutral
neutrality
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Alex looks around at Heph, at Diodotus, at handsome Telekles and round-faced Phrixos,
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Eleanor Herman |
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in the mind.
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Yet she (Princess Diana) suffered one ancient lament of many princess brides--- her husband didn't love her, hadn't wanted to marry her, rarely slept with her, and far prefered his mistress.
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princess-diana
princesses
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Eleanor Herman |
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Boring, religious, and intellectually limited, Marie Leczinska was called one of the two dullest queens in Europe by her own father, the other dull queen being his wife. Marie
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The unattainable was most desireable. The already attained was dull.
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potemkin
potemkin-catherine-the-great
russian
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When Marguerite (Marguerite-Louise of France, Grand Duchess of Tuscany), caught malaria, she claimed the royal family of Tuscany was trying to murder her, but that she would, in fact, rather die than return to her husband. Louis XIV asked the pope to threaten excommunication if Marguerite persisted, and the pontiff sent her a harsh letter. She didn't fear hell, she replied she was already living in it.
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marguerite
marguerite-of-france
seventeenth-century
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Potemkin suffered bitterly from having nothing left to want. For when dreams turn into reality, there is an empty spot where the dreams used to be, and Potemkin had no dreams left.
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dreams
potemkin-and-catherine-the-great
russian-history
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Eleanor Herman |
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Hagnon fixes a value to everything. It occurs to Alexander that the man would probably sell his mother for an obol and consider it a deal.
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historical-fiction
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Eleanor Herman |
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Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass. --Michel de Montaigne O
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Eleanor Herman |
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O do not be born a woman, if you want your own way. --Lucrezia de' Medici O
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Eleanor Herman |
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The more I see of men," she grumbled in one, "the more I love dogs."50"
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Eleanor Herman |
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History offers us not a single recorded cell phone conversation between Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan in which His Most Christian Majesty wishes he were a tampon, or photos of Nell Gwynn sunbathing topless in her walled garden near Whitehall Palace. It is most certainly our loss.
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Eleanor Herman |
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Her legacy is that of a woman who refused to conform to the misogynistic traditions of her time.
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Eleanor Herman |
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In 1891, Princess Louisa of Tuscany married Prince Fredrick Augustus, the heir to to the Saxon throne. The Prince won Louisa over with his gentle manner and striking blond good looks. Yet years later, disenchanted, she wrote in her memoirs, 'Although every princess doubtless at some time dreams an Ideal Prince Charming, she rarely meets him, and she usually marries some one quite different from the hero of her girlhood's dreams.
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prince-princess
princess-louisa-of-tuscany
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To cure epilepsy, doctors concocted recipes of dried human heart or made a potion of wine, lily, lavender, and an entire adult brain, which weighed about three pounds. Human fat was used to treat consumption, rheumatism, and gout. Physicians recommended those suffering from hemorrhoids to stroke them with the amputated hand of a dead man--a strangely unpalatable image to ponder.
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Eleanor Herman |
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Maimonides likewise recommended immediate vomiting after consuming suspect food and praised rooster dung as one of the most effective means to bring this about. "It is said that excrements of roosters have a specific property to eliminate every poison by vomiting," he proclaimed."
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Eleanor Herman |
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Physicians recommended those suffering from hemorrhoids to stroke them with the amputated hand of a dead man--a strangely unpalatable image to ponder.
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Eleanor Herman |
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A rich man, it is said, is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.
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Eleanor Herman |
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In the 1590s, physicians examining the corpse of King Henri IV's twenty-six-year-old mistress agreed that she had, in fact, been killed by a "corrupt lemon."320"
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Eleanor Herman |
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Divine grace, Caravaggio shows us, is not reserved for the rich and powerful, but falls equally on the poor and humble.
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