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 ORCZYOdd’s fish, m’dear! The man can’t even tie his own cravat!
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We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops
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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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Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T’wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine
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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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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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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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Odd’s fish, m’dear! The man can’t even tie his own cravat!
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Fate is usually swift when she deals a blow.
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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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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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There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.
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To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us.
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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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The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.
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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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