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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or…
— Pietro Aretino
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Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world,…
— Honore de Balzac
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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest…
— William Blake
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To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of…
— William Blake
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A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
— William Shenstone
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If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Miserliness has its own conveniences, otherwise nobody would be a miser. If you are not a miser, you become more insecure. If…
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The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The Blessed Sacrament is the magnet of souls. There is a mutual attraction between Jesus and the souls of men. Mary drew…
— Frederick William Faber
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The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.
— Robert E. Sherwood
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He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.
— Josiah Johnson Hawes
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