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Mary A. Ward

"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."

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"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."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"The last good time always comes."

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"Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."

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"When this world is full of fashion, be unique by reflecting your own style."

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"Life is a wave of love in the ocean of time."

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"Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas!"

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"How magical can a person be when she is blessed with infinite kindness?"

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"Life is a journey. If you can't walk, journey with your thoughts and imaginations."

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"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."

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"As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted."
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"My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died."
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"We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress."
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"How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!"
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"I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many."
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"The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope."
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"For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures."
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"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."
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"But no man has a monopoly of conscience."
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"It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly."
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