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Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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