According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those … - Maria Edgeworth

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The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries; that even in environments inhospitable to man, all sort of entities might thrive.

Maria Edgeworth

According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.

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Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

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The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.

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If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.

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What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.

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