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- There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
- Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963), The Bell Jar, 1963
- I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.
- Susan Glaspell, The Visioning, 1911
- It is only the first step that is difficult.
- Marie De Vichy-Chaconne, Marquise Du Defend, letter to Defend, 1763
- Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
- Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), An Unfinished Woman, 1969
- Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, 1928
- Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
- Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living, 1931
- To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
- Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
- A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.
- Marie De France, 12th Century
- The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964
- It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.
- Sue Grafton (1940 - ), 'H' Is for Homicide, 1991
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