Found Quote by Margaret Oliphant

“Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent.”

Margaret Oliphant

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

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I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

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All perfection is melancholy.

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Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves.

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“Don’t you think a certain amount of civilisation is necessary before picture-frames will become remunerative? I don’t think you could live by them in…

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there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.

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As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of…

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“The village lay in the hollow, and climbed, with very prosaic houses, the other side. Village architecture does not flourish in Scotland. The blue slates and the grey stone are sworn foes to the picturesque; and though I do not, for my own part, dislike the interior of an old-fashioned pewed and galleried church, with its little family settlements on…

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Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.

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“And there has been no attempt to investigate it,' I said, 'to see what it really is?' 'Eh, Cornel,' said the coachman's wife, 'wha would investigate, as ye call it, a thing that nobody believes in? Ye would be the laughing-stock of a' the country-side, as my man says.' 'But you believe in it,' I said, turning upon her hastily.…

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To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

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For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

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