We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops
BARONESS ORCZYmusic 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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When will you give up these mad adventures, and leave others to fight their own battles and to save their own lives as best they may?’ When your ladyship has ceased to be the most admired woman in Europe, namely, when I am in my grave.
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Even the worst moments and the weariest journeys must come to an end.
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The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.
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Odd’s fish, m’dear! The man can’t even tie his own cravat!
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Money and titles may be hereditary,” she would say, “but brains are not,”.
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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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…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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There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.
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She said nothing, and Sir Andrew, too, was silent, yet those two young people understood one another, as young people have a way of doing all the world over, and have done since the world began.
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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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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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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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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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Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.
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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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