Geraldine Brooks (writer) - March (2005)

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Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence.

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If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.

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You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.

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If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.

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To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

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The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.

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The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.

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All the times, all the very many times, I had been forced to thwart and stifle my own nature seemed to gather together then, in that hot and dismal corridor. I heard a rushing sound in my head and felt a pressure in my breast, like floodwaters rising behind a flimsy dike. Before I knew I did it, the soup bowl was rising in my hand as if elevated by some supernatural force. Then, its yellow-gray contents were running down the nurse's pudgy face.

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