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Quote by Bernadette Devlin

“I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.”

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Bernadette Devlin, a political figure born on April 23, 1947, has been a significant influence on the political stage in Ireland. She has been actively involved in various political activities, striving for social change. more

“It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over, nature having provided king's evidence in almost every member. The hand will sometimes act as a vane, to show which way the wind blows, even when every feature is set the other way; the knees smite together and sound the alarm of fear under a fierce countenance; the legs shake with anger when all above us calm.”

Men Way Sometimes Matter Hard Shows Hands Together Lying Sound Wind Kings Members Evidence Calm Blow Legs Features Knees Shakes Fierce Alarms Countenance

Book:.) (1850).

Source: .) (1850).

“Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.”

Reality Conditions Essentials Praise Desert

Book:Lectures on Art, and Poems

Source: Lectures on Art, and Poems

“Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it: feel it, and hate in silence.”

Needs Feels May Hate Felt Silence Fame Praise Breaths Excellence Recognition Envious Conjunctions

Author:Washington Allston

“Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.”

Art Home Selfishness Sensibility

Book:Lectures on Art, and Poems

Source: Lectures on Art, and Poems

“Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.”

Ifs Men Justice Negative Vanity Vain Magnanimity Never Expect

Book:Lectures on Art, and Poems

Source: Lectures on Art, and Poems

“I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother.”

Mother Desire Tears Son

Author:Jacques de Lacretelle

“A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.”

Writing Trying Reason Reality Literature Fiction Distance Journalism Journalist Novelists Petty Fake People

Book:Mornings in the dark: the Graham Greene film reader

Source: Mornings in the dark: the Graham Greene film reader

“Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content.”

Reality Form Appearance Agreement Conventions Tacit Conventionality

Book:The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays

Source: The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays

“the higher the development of women, the more they suffer from the 'patriotic' mandate to bear many children to replace the nation's losses. For they know that, from the point of view of their personal development as well as that of the race, fewer but better children are to be preferred.”

Knows Wells Children Suffering Nations Loss Views Race Development Bears Higher Point Of View Personal Development Patriotic Fewer Mandates

Author:Ellen Key

“The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.”

Force Freedom Liberty Dangerous Consequence

Book:Love and Ethics

Source: Love and Ethics

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