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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.

Baroness Orczy

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.
BARONESS ORCZY

Art Mind Music
Money and titles may be hereditary,” she would say, “but brains are not,”.
BARONESS ORCZY

Brain May Titles
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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Fall Heart Idols
The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.
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Ends Night Sadness
Look at this limp cravet. And the sad state of those cuffs. I can hardly bring myself to look upon them.
BARONESS ORCZY

Cuff Hardly Look State
In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.
BARONESS ORCZY

Chains Destiny Links
Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.
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Crushed Fragrant Virtue
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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Echoes Gay Sadness
Fate is usually swift when she deals a blow.
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Blow Deal Fate
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.
BARONESS ORCZY

Love Men Thinking
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.
BARONESS ORCZY

Gay Rolling Water
We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops
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Nincrompoops Prove World
Even the worst moments and the weariest journeys must come to an end.
BARONESS ORCZY

Hope Journey Worst Moments
A woman’s heart is such a complex problem – the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution to this puzzle.
BARONESS ORCZY

Heart Owners Problem
There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.
BARONESS ORCZY

Sacrifice Self Wonderful
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.
BARONESS ORCZY

Adventure Fighting Giving Up

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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