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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.

Thomas Hardy

There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
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Desire Greatness Love Madness Passionate
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
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Acceptance Appearance Husband Man Marriage Ordinary Possession Woman
Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
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Best Devotion Failure Greatness Kind Man Remember Selfish
If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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Better Hide Offense Truth
If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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Beginning Better Path Worst
Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Friendship Lucky One Liner
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Change Exception Surprise Time
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Happiness Imagination Pain Sleep
It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
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Failure Marriage Observation Path People Regular
Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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Feeling Impression Power Remark Silence Soul Speech
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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Evolution Fantasy
Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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Generosity License Love Woman
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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Disappoint Fulfillment Hope Leaving Remove
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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Feature Tree Voice Wood

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