Dorothy Dunnett Quotes
But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.
Dorothy Dunnett
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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Free Trade may be the alpha, but it is not the omega, of Liberal policy.
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Jane McGonigal
She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.
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Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.
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But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.
Dorothy Dunnett
