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“No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.”

“For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something impersonally valuable to the community in which she lived, but it was not that power, and could not be regarded as an end in itself. Nor, even, were children ends in themselves; it was useless to go on producing human beings merely in order that they, in their sequence, might produce others, and never turn from this business of continuous procreation to the accomplishment of some definite and lasting piece of work.”

Source: Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study Of The Years 1900-1925

“Joining a radical movement when one is young is very much like falling in love when one is young. The girl may turn out to be rotten, but the the experience of love is so valuable it can never be entirely undone by the ultimate disenchantment.”

May Young Turns Fall Girl Love Is Movement Ultimate Falling In Love Valuable Radical Rotten Joining Undone Disenchantment

Book:Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea

Source: Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea

“In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.”

Turns Difficult Hours Known Valuable Yesterday Eras Commodity Harbors

Book:On Such a Full Sea: A Novel

Source: On Such a Full Sea: A Novel

“Chats are so new to newspapers, historically. But they're so incredibly valuable because editors/reporters/columnists get to find out what's on the minds of our readers, what you think we should be writing about, what ticks you off, what makes you happy. Sometimes it can confirm what you think readers are interested in; sometimes it can turn you around 180 degrees.”

Thinking Should Writing Mind Sometimes Turns Reader Degrees Valuable Newspapers Editors Reporters Make You Happy Tick Columnists

Author:Michael Wilbon

“A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.”

Men Giving Firsts Moving Turns Knowledge Mankind Prove Valuable Accomplished Surround

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Whatever each individual woman is facing; only she knows her biggest challenge. However, if we add up the problems that affect the biggest numbers of women, then issues having to do with physical safety and reproduction are still the biggest. Female bodies are still the battleground, whether that means restricting freedom, birth control and safe abortion in order to turn them into factories, or abandoning female infants because females are less valuable for everything other than reproduction.”