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- I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and…
- Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but an uncharted voyage…
- In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.
- When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as…
- Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.
- Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on…
- It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing…
- The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though…
- She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must…
- I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in…
- ...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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