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Mary A. Ward
But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
Mary A. Ward
As we listened to Sarah Bernhardt we were watching the outset of a great career which had still some forty years to run.
Mary A. Ward
As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
Mary A. Ward
Again and again I found myself dreaming that the end was near and publication only a month or two away, only to sink back on the dismal conviction that the second, or the first, or the third volume - or some portion of each - must be rewritten, if I was to satisfy myself at all.
Mary A. Ward
A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.
Mary A. Ward
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.
William A. Ward
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
William A. Ward
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
William A. Ward
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
William A. Ward
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.