“She tried, sometimes, to remember how it had been to be young. Or ever, not quite so old.”
Source: Ring (1994), Chapter 13 (p. 704)
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“She found, however, that revenge hurts nobody quite so much as the one who tries to inflict it.”
Source: Anne of the Island (1915), Ch. 2
No. 50 (8 September 1750); often misattributed to Joseph Addison
The Rambler (1750–1752)
Samuel Johnson in The Rambler, no. 50 (8 September 1750); many of Johnson's remarks have been attributed to Addison
Misattributed
Reflections on his earlier life, written when he was 27 (December 1862), published in Letters and Journal of W. Stanley Jevons (1886), edited by Harriet A. Jevons, his wife, p. 11.
Context: When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking of little arts and bits of learning. My mother carefully fostered a liking for botany, giving me a small microscope and many books, which I yet have. Strange as it may seem, I now believe that botany and the natural system, by exercising discrimination of kinds, is the best of logical exercises. What I may do in logic is perhaps derived from that early attention to botany.
The Columbia River Collection (1941), Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done
On her role in White Oleander.
Interview in USA Today, 7 Oct 2002