Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.
BARONESS ORCZYFate is usually swift when she deals a blow.
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There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.
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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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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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Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T’wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine
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We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops
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The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce 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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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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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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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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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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Fate is usually swift when she deals a blow.
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Money and titles may be hereditary,” she would say, “but brains are not,”.
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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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