I sat down to a lavish meal of Irish stew, boiled salad with beets, celery, potatoes doused in cream sauce, haddock and rice, and a long cheeseboard piled with pungent varieties and tasty rolls. I ate...
I remembered a truism that I had always known: no woman need let a man know the contents of her mind.
I am now satisfied of what I always though--which is how much more women can do if they set about it then men. I will lay any bet that had you been here, you would not have got half as much on board a...
You see, Miss Mina, the air is thick with the spirits of the young sailors and fishermen who died in the sea. They still yearn for the love and touch of beautiful women, young men that they were when...
As a famous historian once said, in all its history, Rome deigned to fear two people; one was Hannibal, the other was a woman.
Guinevere loved Arthur until she met Lancelot. Do you not agree that it is possible to love one person but encounter another whose very soul speaks to you?
I raised the hood of my cape and opened my umbrella. Headmistress had given it to me for my twenty-first birthday, knowing how fond I was of the purple foxglove that bloomed in the park. When open, th...
All my life I have known fear. But I have acted in spite of it. I urge you to do the same. Your father used to say that it is preferable to die rather than to live fearing death.
Together, they were greater than either them could possibly be apart. Together, she prayed, they were invincible.
You see, Great Caesar. she said, this is the way in which mortals retain the power of the divine---in every earthly choice they make. 'But it's a paradox.' he said. 'Human beings are in control of eve...
It is a quote from Mihri Hatun, a lady poet who wrote many centuries ago. 'A talented women is better than a thousand untalented men, and a women of understanding is better than a thousand stupid men.
The merciful man is rarely victorious. One's enemies are like snakes; though one may learn to handle them, they are always poisonous.
Simplicity! He is as simple as a spider's web.
Perfection does not take into account the viewer.' Pheidias had once said to me. 'It exists on it own, independent of and unconcerned with opinions or utility.
One must either rule side by side or be subdued entirely.
What is the difference between freedom and hedonism? Between freedom and insanity?
You must never deprive the people of their belief in the power of the gods, and you must never deprive yourself of it either.
The people call it a miracle; the scientists call it invention. But the invention is miraculous, is it not?
It is a woman's burden to suffer the machinations and destruction of men.
It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.
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