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"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."
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"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men."
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"Women may fall when there's no strength in men."
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"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."
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"If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor."
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"There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men."
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"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."
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"But men are men; the best sometimes forget."
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"Men find it difficult because I've got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around."
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"The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference."
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"Without game, men prey on each other."
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"I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool."
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"The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency."
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"Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction."
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"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."
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"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise."
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"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too."
Comfort


"There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are."
Process


"Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does."
Gender


"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
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"To write simply is as difficult as to be good."
Simplicity
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