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"Woman absent is woman dead."
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"Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success."
Government
"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits."
Man
"You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor."
Neighborhood
"The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it."
Nature
"A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities."
Man
"Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders."
Writing
"The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen."
Art
"An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own."
Money
"The real essence of work is concentrated energy."
Work
"Life is a school of probability."
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"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."
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"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."
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"There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade."
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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."
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"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution."
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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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"I hate women because they always know where things are."
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"Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"
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