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Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that — the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.

Baroness Orczy

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Idols

I shall return, doubt it not. Such love as ours was not created to remain unfulfilled. Whatever may happen, believe and trust in me, as I shall in you, and keep the remembrance of me in your heart without sadness and without regret.
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We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops
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Nincrompoops
She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him
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Misunderstood
It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony, to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay.
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Gay Rolling
Odd’s fish, m’dear! The man can’t even tie his own cravat!
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Odd Ties
music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of every other consideration outside his own immediate necessities or desires.

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music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of every other consideration outside his own immediate necessities or desires.
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Even the worst moments and the weariest journeys must come to an end.
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Worst Moments
Money and titles may be hereditary,” she would say, “but brains are not,”.

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Money and titles may be hereditary,” she would say, “but brains are not,”.
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May Titles
…but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.
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Century England
Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.
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Crushed Fragrant
Look at this limp cravet. And the sad state of those cuffs. I can hardly bring myself to look upon them.

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Look at this limp cravet. And the sad state of those cuffs. I can hardly bring myself to look upon them.
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Cuff Hardly
Fate is usually swift when she deals a blow.
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Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.
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Judging Littles
When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.
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Gay Sadness
A woman’s heart is such a complex problem – the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution to this puzzle.
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Owners
In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.
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Chains Links

Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that — the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.

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