Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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