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“And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.”

Children Law Young Literature My Own Brother My Brother Disposition Brothers And Sisters In-laws Affectionate Sister In Law

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“The hope of the world is that wisdom can arrest conflict between brothers. I believe that war is the deadly harvest of arrogant and unreasoning minds. And I find grounds for this belief in the wisdom literature of Proverbs. It says in effect this: Panic strikes like a storm and calamity comes like a whirlwind to those who hate knowledge and ignore their God.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957

“My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.”

Way Literature Gone Brother My Brother English Literature

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Actually, I'm frequently described as the UK's only translator of Korean literature, but even that isn't accurate - Agnita Tennant is UK-based, Janet Poole is British though lives in Toronto, Brother Anthony was born here though is now a naturalised Korean citizen. There's also Chi-young Kim and Sora Kim-Russell, who are younger and do fiction for commercial houses.”

Young Literature House Born Fiction Brother Citizens British Accurate Korean Toronto Kim Translators

Author:Deborah Smith

“One of the stories that dominates our family literature was the fact that my maternal grandfather contracted for - I don't know under what terms - but, for a large section of the old slave plantation. He established himself - sisters and brothers, cousins, etc. on fifty- and sixty-acre plots.”

Knows Facts Stories Literature Term Brother Slave Our Family Fifty Etc Plot Grandfather Sixty Sections Brothers And Sisters Cousin Acres Plantations

Author:Ella Baker

“I think about Chilean literature as a family, because I grew up reading the literature of my country. I feel like I have fathers and stepfathers and a lot of brothers and sisters and distant cousins and all that.”

Thinking Feels Country Reading Father Literature Brother Grew Grew Up Brothers And Sisters Cousin Stepfathers Chileans

Author:Alejandro Zambra

“[My twin brother] he was the star artist of the family as we - as we were growing up. He eventually lost interest and went more towards literature and then medicine and then business and so on. But for me it became something that I did well. And it felt great being able to make something look like something.”

Wells Looks Able Artist Literature Lost Stars Felt Interest Growing Up Growing Brother Medicine Twins Like Something Twin Brother

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.”

World Young Mother Literature Energy Language Doors Brother Offers Embrace Library My Brother Urges Boundless Greatest Gifts Young And Old

Author:Caroline Kennedy

“Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!”

Mother Literature Enemy Son Brother Kings Bitter

Author:Honore de Balzac

“What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.”

Has Beens Book Literature Gone Brother My Brother Now And Then Single Life Dreary Cambridge French Literature

Author:W. Somerset Maugham