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"I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions."
Uncertainty
"A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant."
Man
"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."
Thought
"Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler."
Family
"Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile."
Honesty
"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?"
Being
"Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons."
Woman
"What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence."
Travel
"Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it."
Self
"For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?"
Nation
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"I don't want to see him alone. He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice."
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Personal Development
"He [Old Mr. Turveydrop] was a fat old gentleman with a false complexion, false teeth, false whiskers, and a wig. He had a fur collar, and he had a padded breast to his coat, which only wanted a star or a broad blue ribbon to be complete. He was pinched in, and swelled out, and got up, and strapped down, as much as he could possibly bear."
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"The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!"
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"If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape."
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"Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death."
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"On the Kite, the situation was being 'workshopped'. This is the means by which people who don't know anything get together to pool their ignorance."
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"Or he'd watch the news: more plagues, more famines, more floods, more insect or microbe or small-mammal outbreaks, more droughts, more chickenshit boy-soldier wars in distant countries. Why was everything so much like itself?"
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"I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do."
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"What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry."
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"Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap."
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