“The human heart, no matter what age, will only open to the heart that opens in return.”
“I have no longing for great wealth. For great adventure, yes, to travel widely and love deeply these things I value more than profits. Though certainly one needs enough of those to finance the former things.”
“Yes, sometimes we must lose something...someone...before we realize its worth.”
“The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
MARIA EDGEWORTH, 19T" CENTURY NOVELIST”
“The apothecary of this country is qualified by education to attend at the bedside of the sick, and, being in general better acquainted with pharmacy than the physicians of English universities ... is often the most successful practitioner.
JEREMIAH JENKINS, OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE PROFESSION AND TRADE OF MEDICINE, 1810
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“You may be small in the attic, but you have a big heart.”
“My father was a North Somerset fisherman. He always said if the apostles needed the Lord to tell them where to cast their nets, then he could do no better than to ask the Almighty for direction as well.”
“Not a formidable presence, except in that madman way that drunks wield, that does-it-look-like-I-give-a-fuck-about-anything?”
“He leaned over her, the sun behind his head making a halo of gold, his face lit by the reflections off the water.”
“Wanting to be liked is often a very unlikeable characteristic.”
“In the words of a Zen poem, At dusk the cock announces dawn; At midnight, the bright sun.”
“What else makes you hot?" You asking what makes me hot makes me hot.”
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