#v

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered. ↗

— Philip Hone

#country #escape #first #homes #occasion

They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable. ↗

— Philip Hone

#inevitable #may #murder #rendered #situation

A good lather is half the shave. ↗

— William Hone

#half #shave

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world. ↗

— Horace

#been #birth #death #lived #unnoticed

I have never said this to anyone before.” Leo’s voice was like ragged velvet. “But the idea of you with child is the most insanely arousing thing I’ve ever imagined. Your belly all swollen, your breasts heavy, the funny little way you would walk … I would worship you. I would take care of your every need. And everyone would know that I’d made you that way, that you belonged to me. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#dreamy-sighs #possessiveness #funny

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle. ↗

— John B. Hood

#battle #brave #engaged #ever #fearful

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind. ↗

— Thomas Hood

#against #attempt #conceited #like #people

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther. ↗

— Thomas Hood

#copper #farther #get #going #improve

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn. ↗

— Thomas Hood

#burn #great #great men #leave #letters

The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!! ↗

— Peter Hook

#difference #dj #done #everyone #excited