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- Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us…
- Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than…
- Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for…
- But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.
- She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
- O vanity, mislead no more!
- Mrs. Jo did not mean the measles, but that more serious malady called love, which is apt to ravage communities, spring and autumn, when winter…
- I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
- I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I…
- The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.
- ...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us…
- I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's…
- Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.
- Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…
- …we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people…
- …misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.
- Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -
- Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no…
- If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really are.…
- Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.
- Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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