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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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Nature
I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.
5.0 · 44 votes · 6 reads
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Thought and Reason
I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
3.7 · 38 votes · 86 reads
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Virtues
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
3.9 · 20 votes · 54 reads
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Time
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
3.5 · 38 votes · 163 reads
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Various
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
4.0 · 31 votes · 50 reads
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Art and Culture
I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.
4.5 · 50 votes · 161 reads
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Nature
I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation - they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.
3.1 · 5 votes · 130 reads
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Countries
I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
4.5 · 18 votes · 156 reads
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Thought and Reason
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
5.0 · 30 votes · 80 reads
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Art and Culture
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.
4.7 · 63 votes · 156 reads
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Art and Culture
In general I do not draw well with literary men - not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.
3.5 · 30 votes · 13 reads
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Feelings
In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
5.0 · 47 votes · 105 reads
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Various
In solitude, where we are least alone.
3.9 · 41 votes · 160 reads
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Society
It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever
4.7 · 9 votes · 61 reads
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Thought and Reason
It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment -but who can be su
4.3 · 12 votes · 117 reads
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Nature
It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.
4.8 · 11 votes · 107 reads
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Feelings
It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe -you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
3.2 · 58 votes · 100 reads
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Nature
It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
3.1 · 12 votes · 90 reads
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Society
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
4.1 · 10 votes · 39 reads
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Time
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.
3.4 · 27 votes · 54 reads
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Defects
Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
4.5 · 49 votes · 115 reads
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Society
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after.
3.0 · 51 votes · 17 reads
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Various
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
4.6 · 34 votes · 195 reads
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Nature
Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
3.7 · 58 votes · 95 reads
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Feelings
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
3.1 · 22 votes · 28 reads
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Feelings
Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
3.5 · 33 votes · 120 reads
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Nature
Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
3.9 · 51 votes · 61 reads
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Society
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
5.0 · 54 votes · 88 reads
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Feelings
Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
4.8 · 53 votes · 15 reads
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Various
Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
4.4 · 43 votes · 115 reads
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Various
My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons.
3.4 · 5 votes · 140 reads
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Society
My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
4.8 · 61 votes · 47 reads
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Time
My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that ''Carpe Diem'' is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds - for who can trust to tomorrow?
4.1 · 16 votes · 179 reads
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Defects
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
3.0 · 21 votes · 37 reads
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Thought and Reason
No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
3.0 · 49 votes · 87 reads
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