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A good neighbour sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.

Neighbours

3.1 · 57 votes

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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Age

3.2 · 34 votes

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And lips say ''God be pitiful,'' who never said, ''God be praised.''

Religion

187 reads

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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

Literature

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Books succeed, and lives fail.

Literature

3.5 · 54 votes · 164 reads

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Time
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
3.7 · 48 votes · 129 reads
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Virtues
Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.
3.1 · 28 votes · 42 reads
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Nature
For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
3.2 · 14 votes · 33 reads
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Various
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.
4.0 · 25 votes · 116 reads
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Feelings
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
4.9 · 25 votes · 30 reads
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Feelings
If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
4.8 · 51 votes · 38 reads
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Feelings
Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
3.1 · 51 votes · 40 reads
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Society
Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.
3.5 · 38 votes · 185 reads
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Thought and Reason
Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
4.5 · 52 votes · 85 reads
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Virtues
Since when was genius found respectable?
4.5 · 64 votes · 31 reads
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Virtues
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
4.3 · 46 votes · 28 reads
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Society
The devil's most devilish when respectable.
3.3 · 17 votes · 153 reads
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Feelings
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, ''Let no one be called happy till his death;'' to which I would add, ''Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.''
4.4 · 28 votes · 76 reads
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Virtues
The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
3.8 · 52 votes · 8 reads
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Virtues
This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.
4.2 · 40 votes · 1 reads
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Virtues
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
3.0 · 7 votes · 111 reads
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Various
What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?
4.5 · 53 votes · 158 reads
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Feelings
Who so loves believes the impossible.
3.0 · 44 votes · 142 reads
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Society
Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
3.2 · 37 votes · 185 reads
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