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When I had a full-time job, I really wasn't that busy, but now I'm really busy. I guess that's a good thing. ↗

— Chris Moneymaker

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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Life is too short for a long story. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#life is too short #long #long story #short #story

Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith. ↗

— Maria Monk

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We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility. ↗

— Maria Monk

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I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them. ↗

— Maria Monk

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I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences. ↗

— Maria Monk

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My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life. ↗

— Maria Monk

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Some of the priests from the Seminary were in the nunnery every day and night, and often several at a time. ↗

— Maria Monk

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