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| 3843e75 | New England farmers did not think of war as a game, or a feudal ritual, or an instrument of state power, or a bloodsport for bored country gentlemen. They did not regard the pursuit of arms as a noble profession. In 1775, many men of Massachusetts had been to war. They knew its horrors from personal experience. With a few exceptions, they thought of fighting as a dirty business that had to be done from time to time if good men were to survi.. | David Hackett Fischer | ||
| 925cae6 | Until Washington crossed the Delaware, the triumph of the old order seemed inevitable. Thereafter, things would never be the same again. | american-revolution george-washington war | David Hackett Fischer | |
| b6fc393 | he devoted a considerable amount of his acute intelligence to the cause of doing as little as possible. Tristan did, in fact, spend much of his time sleeping in a chair. | James Herriot | ||
| 311b429 | But Siegfried held up a restraining hand. "Just one moment," he slurred. "The windscreen is very dirty. I'll give it a rub for you." The ladies watched him silently as he weaved round to the back of the car and began to rummage in the boot. The love light had died from their eyes. I don't know why he took the trouble; possibly it was because, through the whisky mists, he felt he must re-establish himself as a competent and helpful member of.. | James Herriot | ||
| 6dc837c | I'm really not quite as frippery a fellow as you seem to think! I own that in my grasstime I committed a great many follies and extravagances, but, believe me, I've long since out-grown them! I don't think they were any worse than what nine out of ten youngsters commit, but unfortunately I achieved, through certain circumstances, a notoriety which most young men escape. I was born with a natural aptitude for the sporting pursuits you regard.. | gossip | Georgette Heyer | |
| f0d977e | nothing makes one so cross as knowing one is in the wrong, does it? | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 83cc538 | What brings you here, Kit? No wish to offend you, but not quite the thing, you know!' Her lip trembled. She replied with a catch in her voice: 'I am running away!' 'Oh, running away!' said Mr Standen, satisfied. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| ce59411 | Your strength lies in being precisely the kind of man who can procure one a chair when it has come on to rain. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 0218e98 | Why, her father would turn in his grave--well, as a matter of fact, he was cremated, but what I mean is, if he hadn't been he would have. [Ermyntrude] | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 283734f | He would not object, he said, to accepting a post as a librarian. But as Cecilia was unable to imagine that her father or her brother would feel any marked degree of satisfaction in giving her in marriage to a librarian, this very handsome concession on Mr Fawnhope's part merely added to her despondency. | librarians | Georgette Heyer | |
| eb446d7 | Mrs Hendred did not like the people around her to be unhappy. Even the sight of a housemaid crying with the pain of the toothache made her feel low, for misery had no place in her comfortable existence; and when it obtruded itself on her notice it dimmed the warm sunshine in which she basked, and quite ruined her belief in a world where everyone was contented, and affluent, and cheerful. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| a3cf246 | I see you will have it, Mr. Jettan. I will meet you when and where you will." Philip patted his sword-hilt. "I have noticed, Mr. Bancroft, that you habitually don your sword. So I took the precaution of wearing mine. 'When' is now, and 'where' is yonder!" He pointed above the hedge that encircled the garden to the copse beyond. It was a very fine theatrical effect, and he was pleased with it." | Georgette Heyer | ||
| b65a491 | You absurd boy! Oh, Evelyn, I'm so thankful you've come, but what in the world has detained you? I've been sick with apprehension!" There was a quizzical gleam in the gentleman's eyes, but he said in accents of deep reproach: "Come, come, Mama - !" "It may be very well for you to say Come, come, Mama," she retorted, "but when you faithfully promised to return not a day later than -" She broke off, staring down at him in sudden doubt. Abando.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 2d1addf | Well, it is very odd of you to threaten to throw your friends out of the window, I must say," remarked Juliana. He smiled. "Not at all. It is only my friends that I would throw out of the window." "Dear me!" said Juliana, finding the male sex incomprehensible. -Chapter XIII" | males men windows | Georgette Heyer | |
| f9b9c21 | What, sir, would you think of a member of the Weaker Sex who assumed the guise of a man, and left the home of her natural protector by way of the window?" "I should assume," replied Sir Richard, "that she had strong reasons for acting with such resolution." "She did not wish to marry me," said Mr. Griffin gloomily. "Oh!" said Sir Richard. "Well, I'm sure I can't see why she should be so set against me, but that's not it, sir. The thing is t.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 5cdf072 | Yes, love," responded his sister cheerfully, "but it wasn't of the least consequence, and in any event I answered for you. You would be astonished, I daresay, if you knew what interesting conversations I enjoy with myself." | Georgette Heyer | ||
| b0858fa | I may have said that I wanted to have an adventure," replied Miss Thane. "But I never said that I wanted to be murdered in my bed." | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 60b0c93 | Now, that,' said Sophy, 'I am very glad to know, because if ever I should desire to please you I shall know just how to set about it. I daresay I shan't, but one likes to be prepared for any event, however unlikely. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 6b0badb | Upon Mrs Scorton's reappearance, she found herself confronted, not by the fool of his family, but by the Honourable Frederick Standen, a Pink of the Pinks, who knew to a nicety how to blend courtesy with hauteur, and who informed her, with exquisite politeness, that he rather fancied his cousin was tired, and would like to be taken home. One of the uninvited guests, entering the box in Eliza's wake, ventured on a warm sally, found himself b.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| ba29ac4 | I have never met the man who had vision large enough to appreciate my genius," he said simply. "Perhaps it was not to be expected." | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 7ba023f | But where is my son? Where is the beautiful Miss Merriot? | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 0ed377a | If I were a man I would kill you!" "If you were a man we wouldn't be having this conversation!" | Georgette Heyer | ||
| fa9d806 | I know it, and I wanted so much not to drag you into it!' said Kitty remorsefully. 'I thought, if only you knew nothing about it, it would serve as a reason for you to put an end to our engagement!' 'Yes, I know you did. Told me so, in that letter you wrote me. Dashed cork-brained notion! Stands to reason if you're in it I must be too. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| c10bcbe | You think I've got brains?' he said, awed. 'Not confusing me with Charlie?' 'Charlie?' uttered Miss Charing contemptuously. 'I daresay he has book-learning, but you have--you have address, Freddy!' 'Well, by Jove!' said Mr Standen, dazzled by this new vision of himself. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 420f733 | That *does* relieve my mind!' 'It might well - except that I fancy you don't care a straw how we may appear.' 'On the contrary! Think how much my credit would suffer!' She laughed, but shook her head. 'You don't care for that either. Or - or for anything, perhaps.' He was momentarily taken aback by this, but he replied without perceptible hesitation: 'Not profoundly.' She frowned, turning it over in her mind. 'Well, I can understand that th.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| a5f3829 | I don't ask you - fribble!' snapped his lordship, rounding on him, with the speed of a whiplash. 'You may keep your tongue between your teeth!' "Yes, sir - happy to!' uttered Claud, dismayed. 'No wish to offend you! Thought you might like to be set right!' 'Thought I might like to be set right?' 'No, no! Spoke without thinking!' said Claud hastily. ' I know you don't!" -- | humour regency | Georgette Heyer | |
| f0f9365 | he never allowed himself to think about unpleasant things, which answered very well, and could be supported in times of really inescapable stress by his genius for persuading himself that any disagreeable necessity forced upon him by his own folly, or his son's overriding will, was the outcome of his own choice and wise decision. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 8affa38 | I am not in a heat at all,' Leonie said with great precision. 'I am of a coolness quite remarkable, and I would like to kill that woman. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| a65d0cd | When a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room. Another entity capable of free will, and therefore capable of becoming God, has been born. | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| 0750876 | When avoidance of pain becomes the major emphasis of childbirth care, the paradoxical effect is that more women have to deal with pain after their babies are born. | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| 5a91d83 | The Creator is not a careless mechanic. | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| 71bfead | Breast stimulation is especially effective in starting labor at term when it is combined with sexual intercourse. Unless your partner is an abysmally poor lover, this combination is by far the most enjoyable method of induction. | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| d1dbbec | There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ, they would brag about it. So should we. | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| d6355ab | Taken together, New Labour policies have helped to build a series of overlapping chav caricatures: the feckless, the non-aspirational, the scrounger, the dysfunctional and the disorderly. To hear this sort of rhetoric from Labour, rather than the Tories, has confirmed the stereotypes and prejudices many middle-class people have about working-class communities and individuals. But it can be far subtler than outright attacks. Many of New Labo.. | Owen Jones | ||
| 278994e | It is entirely undesirable that on modern housing estates only one type of citizen should live,' he argued. 'If we are to enable citizens to lead a full life, if they are each to be aware of the problems of their neighbours, then they should all be drawn from different sectors of the community. We should try to introduce what was always the lovely feature of English and Welsh villages, where the doctor, the grocer, the butcher and the farm .. | Owen Jones | ||
| a354e21 | So little time. We have so little time on this earth with the people we love. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| ecab6a0 | When you shine a bright light, a secret loses all its power. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 64f7586 | Jane remained in her chair thinking about justice, about how the dead never benefited from it. For them it always comes too late. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 755654f | I saw a dog pursuing automobiles; On and on he sped. I was puzzled by this; I accosted the dog. 'If you catch one,' I said 'What will you do with it?' 'Dumb cat,' he cried, And ran on." | humor stephen-crane | Henry N. Beard | |
| 7ace28c | Every sin is the result of a collaboration | Stephen Crane | ||
| c0e1e62 | I am," Jefferson wrote to a correspondent who wanted to know his philosophy of life, "an Epicurean." | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| d7c9a65 | The massive interest in self-esteem and self-worth exists because it is trying to help us with a real problem. The problem is that we really are not okay. There is no reason why we should feel great about ourselves. We truly are deficient. The meager props of the self-esteem teaching will eventually collapse as people realize that their problem is much deeper. The problem is, in part, our nakedness before God. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 016592f | Jesus entered the temple area and revealed that he was the perfect and final priest; even more, he was the entire temple. All the temple symbols suddenly came to life. He was the wash basin, the Water of Life. He was the bread of the Presence, the Bread of Life. He was the candlesticks, the Light of the World. He was the perfect priest, the Great High Priest who would offer the sacrifice, and he was the sacrifice itself, "the Lamb of God, w.. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 7db96bd | Don't let religious-sounding reluctance fool you. When you plead "unworthy" and refuse to be served by God, you place your judgment about yourself above God's. You say you would prefer to go it alone, and you imply that your unworthiness goes beyond the scope of God's mercy and grace. You must think that God cleanses you only from ordinary sins, not from the spectacular ones." | Edward T. Welch |