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"A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all."
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"We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes."

"A miscreant with coiffed, scented hair, a slender waist, the hips of a woman and the chest of a Prussian officer, with a finely tied cravat, by all girls admired."

"Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel."

"If you have a good sense of dressing, there wouldn't be any need to spend a fortune to look good."

"The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance."

"A beautiful lady with an evil heart is like a hundred dollar note cut in two with one piece missing."

"Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?"

"Your face, my thane, is as a book where menMay read strange matters. To beguile the time,Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,But be the serpent under't."

"If Fancy's lips had been real cherries probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained."

"Dye your hair, certainly. But what can you do for your face?"
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"He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had before known but darkly - the seasons in their moods, morning and evening, night and noon, winds in their different tempers, trees, waters and mists, shades and silences, and the voices of inanimate things."


"You are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness."


"To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is almost a palpable movement. To enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilized mankind, who are diregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars."


"Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences."


"Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong."


"When women are secret they are secret indeed and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover."


"All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her rose automatically as the sap in the twigs. It was unexpected youth, surging up anew after its temporary check, and bringing with it hope, and the invincible instinct towards self-delight."
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