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- if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the…
- She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.
- It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor,…
- Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.
- Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?
- Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
- Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks
- To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of…
- And oh, what a mercy it is that these women do not exercise their powers oftener! We can't resist them, if they do. Let them…
- To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost…
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — 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