"A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise……" — Minna Antrim
"A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul."
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21 Quotes by Minna Antrim
Minna Antrim has 21 quotes on this site.
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Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
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The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
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Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
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Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.
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Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast
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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
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Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
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Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.
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When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
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The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose…
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A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
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Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.
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