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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.

Baroness Orczy

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

Sacrifice Self Wonderful
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
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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Another Done People Two Young
Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.
BARONESS ORCZY

Charity Judging Littles
Even the worst moments and the weariest journeys must come to an end.
BARONESS ORCZY

Hope Journey Worst Moments
Fate is usually swift when she deals a blow.
BARONESS ORCZY

Blow Deal Fate
The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.
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Ends Night Sadness
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
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
…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.
BARONESS ORCZY

Century Emotion England
We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops
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Nincrompoops Prove World
Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.
BARONESS ORCZY

Crushed Fragrant Virtue
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.
BARONESS ORCZY

Believe Heart Regret
Money and titles may be hereditary,” she would say, “but brains are not,”.
BARONESS ORCZY

Brain May Titles
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
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 ORCZY

Fall Heart Idols

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