"What happiness is there which is not purchased……" — Margaret Oliphant
"What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?"
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10 Quotes by Margaret Oliphant
Margaret Oliphant has 10 quotes on this site.
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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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It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of…
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For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind…
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Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
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Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is…
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The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives,…
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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…
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Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
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Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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He who hath many friends hath none.
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or…
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until…
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
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