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Nature
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
3.6 · 15 votes · 134 reads
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Nature
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
3.8 · 33 votes · 162 reads
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Thought and Reason
All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.
4.4 · 56 votes · 7 reads
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Time
All farewells should be sudden, when forever.
4.4 · 48 votes · 58 reads
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Society
All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.
4.1 · 53 votes · 23 reads
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Various
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
3.7 · 49 votes · 157 reads
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Countries
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
4.6 · 25 votes · 170 reads
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Time
And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.
4.1 · 46 votes · 81 reads
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Thought and Reason
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
4.8 · 27 votes · 198 reads
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Defects
As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
4.5 · 57 votes · 95 reads
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Nature
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
4.6 · 34 votes · 98 reads
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Nature
But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
3.6 · 24 votes · 8 reads
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Art and Culture
But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.
3.1 · 38 votes · 11 reads
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Feelings
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
4.3 · 34 votes · 157 reads
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Thought and Reason
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
4.3 · 34 votes · 27 reads
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Art and Culture
Critics are already made.
4.4 · 18 votes · 197 reads
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Nature
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
4.7 · 43 votes · 110 reads
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Society
Fame is the thirst of youth.
4.2 · 50 votes · 87 reads
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Society
Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
3.7 · 54 votes · 108 reads
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Time
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
3.7 · 43 votes · 114 reads
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Nature
For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.
3.3 · 5 votes · 25 reads
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Feelings
Friendship is Love without his wings!
3.2 · 45 votes · 100 reads
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Feelings
Hatred is the madness of the heart.
3.4 · 50 votes · 2 reads
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Defects
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
4.9 · 53 votes · 158 reads
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Time
History is the devil's scripture.
3.9 · 37 votes · 72 reads
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Time
I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine -and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so -and now the dros
3.3 · 62 votes · 119 reads
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Art and Culture
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
3.5 · 48 votes · 13 reads
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Society
I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day...
4.2 · 8 votes · 189 reads
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Various
I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.
3.8 · 50 votes · 68 reads
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Art and Culture
I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad
4.5 · 50 votes · 63 reads
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Society
I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
4.2 · 47 votes · 126 reads
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Art and Culture
I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence -this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
3.8 · 6 votes · 72 reads
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Society
I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
3.1 · 61 votes · 177 reads
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Various
I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
3.2 · 37 votes · 108 reads
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Society
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
4.4 · 25 votes · 111 reads
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Various
I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive - besides one can game ten times longe
3.7 · 41 votes · 24 reads
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Feelings
I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each o
3.3 · 56 votes · 165 reads
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Society
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
3.9 · 32 votes · 177 reads
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Feelings
I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.
3.5 · 41 votes · 125 reads
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Society
I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
4.3 · 15 votes · 126 reads
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