Eleanor Herman Quotes

#1. Yet she (Princess Diana) suffered one ancient lament of many princess brides--- her husband didn't love her, hadn't wanted to marry her, rarely slept with her, and far prefered his mistress.

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#2. But as the late- seventeenth-century philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz said, 'To be neutral is rather like someone who lives in the middle of a house and is smoked out from below and drenched with urine from above.

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#3. Weakness, he has learned, isn't in the arm or the leg or the back. Weakness is in the mind.

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#4. Potemkin suffered bitterly from having nothing left to want. For when dreams turn into reality, there is an empty spot where the dreams used to be, and Potemkin had no dreams left.

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#5. He rubs his forehead, frustrated, then raises his eyes, one dark brown, one gray-blue - the

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#6. Alex looks around at Heph, at Diodotus, at handsome Telekles and round-faced Phrixos,

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#7. Hagnon fixes a value to everything. It occurs to Alexander that the man would probably sell his mother for an obol and consider it a deal.

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#8. The unattainable was most desireable. The already attained was dull.

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#9. Kat hates men like that, men who are too attractive for their own good-and know it.

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#10. Questions are answered not when you want an answer but when the time for answers is right.

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#11. When the destiny of a nation is in a woman's bedroom, the best place for the historian is in the antechamber. - CHARLES-AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE

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#12. Boring, religious, and intellectually limited, Marie Leczinska was called one of the two dullest queens in Europe by her own father, the other dull queen being his wife. Marie

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#13. Because sometimes it doesn't help to chase after the thing you want. No. Sometimes you have to wait, however long it takes, until what you want most comes to you.

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