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Human nature is above all things lazy. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. ↗

— William Styron

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We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace. ↗

— Thomas R. Kelly

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Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

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Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature. ↗

— Lennart Meri

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Medicine and writing are natural companions. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

#medicine #natural #writing

Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends. ↗

— James Payn

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Nature is a teacher who never deceives. ↗

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

#teacher #nature

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

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