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 ORCZYLook at this limp cravet. And the sad state of those cuffs. I can hardly bring myself to look upon them.
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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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We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops
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Fate is usually swift when she deals a blow.
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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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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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Even the worst moments and the weariest journeys must come to an end.
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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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…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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Odd’s fish, m’dear! The man can’t even tie his own cravat!
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The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.
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There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.
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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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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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Money and titles may be hereditary,” she would say, “but brains are not,”.
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