"Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!"

Legacy, Possession, Death, Love, Life

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"Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!"

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"Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Housekeeping ain't no joke."

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"Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty."

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"Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it."

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"A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well."

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"That was all I wanted!" whispered Polly, in a tone which caused him to feel that the race of angels was not entirely extinct."

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"I was never like the rest of you, making plans about the great things I'd do, I never saw myself as anything much, just shy, stupid little Beth, who's only use was at home. Why does everyone want to go away? I love being home, but I don't like being left behind. Now I'm the one going ahead, No one can stop God if He wants me, But I'm afraid I shall be homesick for you... even in heaven."

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