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Miss Daw said, half to herself, “Now you have had your first lesson in what it is like to be a real grown-up woman in a man’s world, my dear. We are judged by our looks, and men are not.”

— John C. Wright Orphans of Chaos (2005)

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Unliving things have no passions, and no memory: mere matter is the amnesia of the universe.

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Everyone loses in war, even the winners.

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Merlin and Solomon can tell you how well the wise and learned can withstand the foolishness of love!

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You have reached that unfortunate age where you have all of life’s answers and you know everything more perfectly and more profoundly than your elders.

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Need I say that, if the universe is destroyed, it is unlikely that the British Isles will be preserved?

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