The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. — Quoted

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“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”

George Eliot · History

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When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

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Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

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And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

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