“What are men to rocks and mountains?”

Jane Austen
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“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”

Jane Austen
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“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

Jane Austen
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A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“We do not look in great cities for our best morality.”

Thomas Jefferson
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“There is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!”

Jane Austen
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“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.”

Jane Austen
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One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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