A quotation from Pratchett, Terry:

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She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don’t apply to you.
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Equal Rites (1987) - Pratchett, Terry | WIST Quotations

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don’t apply to you. Of the character Eskarina "Esk" Smith, modeled after Pratchett's daughter, Rhianna.

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A quotation from Dante Alighieri:

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O my dear brother, what is there to say?
In vision I already see a time —
and it is not far distant from this day —
in which the pulpit shall denounce by writ
the shameless jades that Florentines call ladies,
who go about with breasts bare to the tit.
What…
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The Divine Comedy [Divina Commedia], Book 2 "Purgatorio," Canto 23, l. 97ff (23.97-108) (1314) [tr. Ciardi (1961)] - Dante Alighieri | WIST Quotations

O my dear brother, what is there to say? In vision I already see a time -- and it is not far distant from this day -- in which the pulpit shall denounce by writ the shameless jades that Florentines call ladies, who go about with breasts bare to the…

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#Brazenness - The quality or state of being brazen.