The literary woman, unsatisfied, agitated, desolate in heart and entrails, listening every minute with painful curiosity to the imperative which whispers from the depths of her organism "aut liberi aut libri [either children or books]." Twilight of the Idols
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. Don Quixote
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little. De Profundis
It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides. Persuasion
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