I wanted to be of service to the Peace League, and how could I better do so than by trying to write a book which should propagate its ideas? And I could do it most effectively, I thought, in the form of a story.

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• Bertha von Suttner:

  I am quite sure that from America will come the greatest help for the cause of peace, and I conside

• Bertha von Suttner:

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• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson:

  I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.

• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson:

  When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must h

• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson:

  My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc

• George Stephenson:

  I am much obliged by the favourable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can

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  The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long befor

• George Stephenson:

  The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

• Bria Vinaite:

  We all judge people.

• Bria Vinaite:

  It's kind of almost not fair that certain people don't get the opportunities that others get just b