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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride…
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what…
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
— Anne Sullivan Macy
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You don't need candlelight and fireside glow to make Christmas happen. Trees, ornaments, gifts, and all of it are splendid embellishments. Not…
— Jack W. Hayford
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Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he…
— Samuel Johnson
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The inspiration starts with the armor my parents collected. The references are subtle, whether in the mix of textures (woven, quilted, pleated)…
— Tory Burch
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Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they…
— Jane Austen
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Ivy waved her wet handkerchief, as much as to say 'words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress'. Then, because Ivy never settled…
— Gail Carriger
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Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod…
— Paul Di Filippo
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