Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T’wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine
BARONESS ORCZYTo 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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Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.
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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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Fate is usually swift when she deals a blow.
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Odd’s fish, m’dear! The man can’t even tie his own cravat!
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Even the worst moments and the weariest journeys must come to an end.
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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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There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.
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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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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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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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Money and titles may be hereditary,” she would say, “but brains are not,”.
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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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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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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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We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops
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