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The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their…

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Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place…

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

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I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

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All perfection is melancholy.

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Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves.

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“Don’t you think a certain amount of civilisation is necessary before picture-frames will become remunerative? I don’t think you could live by them in…

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there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.

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As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of…

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“The village lay in the hollow, and climbed, with very prosaic houses, the other side. Village architecture does not flourish in Scotland. The blue slates and the grey stone are sworn foes to the picturesque; and though I do not, for my own part, dislike the interior of an old-fashioned pewed and galleried church, with its little family settlements on…

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Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.

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“And there has been no attempt to investigate it,' I said, 'to see what it really is?' 'Eh, Cornel,' said the coachman's wife, 'wha would investigate, as ye call it, a thing that nobody believes in? Ye would be the laughing-stock of a' the country-side, as my man says.' 'But you believe in it,' I said, turning upon her hastily.…

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