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LYDIA MILLET 'Dept. of Speculation' contains numerous enviable lines.
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LYDIA LEONARD To write erotic proza is not statisfactory. You are always exited but never done.
LYDIA ROOD Fiction should be an ethically safe space, free of fancy ideas. It should be dedicated modestly to r...
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Be Broken!
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LYDIA MILLET Remember, cousins are forever!
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LYDIA MILLET I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring.
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LYDIA DAVIS I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.
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LYDIA LENKER The governor continues to stress fiscal responsibility to ensure the state doesn't end up with a def...
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LYDIA PARNES What we're looking for is to have small businesses apply standards that are reasonable in light of t...
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LYDIA PARNES A recent surf [of the Internet] showed some sites offering these services were registered to foreign...
LYDIA PARNES More than half were no longer advertising the sale of these records.
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LYDIA PANES We're offering both good news and cautionary notes.
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LYDIA MUNOZ They are concerned because of the management. They're very abusive.
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LYDIA SALDANA We left messages for those who weren't home. So, hopefully, they will call back later and donate.
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Head tries to help heart.
Head tells heart how it is, again:
You will lo...
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LYDIA NETZER Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
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LYDIA M. CHILD Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
LYDIA M CHILD The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, ...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters no...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as...
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Thy home may be lo...
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LYDIA MARIA CHILD There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theat...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angel...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Home -- that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and he...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. I...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Over the river and through the wood,
To grandfather's house we go;
The horse knows the way LYDIA MARIA CHILD Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it sligh...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
LYDIA M. CHILD Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
LYDIA M. CHILD I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as...
LYDIA M. CHILD None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as...
LYDIA M. CHILD You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to con...
LYDIA M. CHILD The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in...
LYDIA M. CHILD A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
LYDIA M. CHILD Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. I...
LYDIA M. CHILD Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is...
LYDIA M. CHILD