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"A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one."
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"He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices."
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"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."
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"Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country."
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"Jaws was still a handsome, big guy. He got the girl. He was my favorite villain. I tried to make this guy endearing somewhat because all he wanted to do was unite his country."
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"In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon."
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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."
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"Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner."
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"What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel."
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"I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks."
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"If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed."
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"For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town."
Spring
"It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly."
Rank
"I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child."
Home
"But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term."
Books
"For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures."
Marriage
"It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership."
Marriage
"English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century."
Education
"A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it."
Life
"I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again."
Life
"I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many."
Hope
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