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- What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
- He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a…
- What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and,…
- Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to…
- This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never…
- What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all…
- Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way…
- I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.
- Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.
- Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
- We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then…
- All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.
- For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and…
- I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.
- If love lives through all life; and survives through all sorrow; and remains steadfast with us through all changes; and in all darkness of spirit…
- Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who knows not that:…
- When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money,…
- Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. The cold…
- Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that…
- It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
- The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
- All is vanity, nothing is fair.
- She lived in her past life- these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that was left her in the world.
- To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost…
- The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle