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• Fancy tortures more people than does reality
• Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.
• A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.
• Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
• Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked.
• A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence must always seem…
• Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely…
• The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms…
• When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor…
• Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.
• Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
• What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --"Wanda
• One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. --"Wanda
• Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda
• Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
• I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.
• In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration…
• Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.
• What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth?

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