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Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

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Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)

Women never hit what they aim at, ... but if they shut their eyes and shoot in the air they generally find themselves in the bull's eye.

New Chronicles of Rebecca (1907)

With the wonderful water round you curled

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)

Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood.”

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)

Salemina is so English! I can’t think how she manages. She is, in fact, more than English; she is British.

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

Jerome The Cry for Justice (1915)

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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