The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.
BARONESS ORCZYFate is usually swift when she deals a blow.
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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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Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.
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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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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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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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Even the worst moments and the weariest journeys must come to an end.
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We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops
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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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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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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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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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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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