Stand there, damn'd meddling villain, and be silent; For if thou utt'rest but a single word, A cough … - Joanna Baillie

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I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

Joanna Baillie

Stand there, damn'd meddling villain, and be silent; For if thou utt'rest but a single word, A cough or hem, to cross me in my speech, I'll send thy cursed spirit from the earth, To bellow with the damn'd!

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Me care for te laws when te laws care for me.

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I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of endless void, but cannot live in shame.

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A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down.

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The plainest case in many words entangling.

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It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.

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Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters.

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I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

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Cynthia Lennon

Noel [Charles, husband] and I love cooking. He does his cooking and I do mine. I'm the traditional English cook, with a twist now and then. Because I was married to an Italian, I'm also pretty good at Italian food. Noel, he can cook anything, so can Julian.

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