Margaret Oliphant Quotes

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• To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
• It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent…
• What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
• For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.
• Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
• Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out…
• 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…
• 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 that…
• Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
• Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind

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