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"Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness."
Happiness
"For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous."
Woman
"When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage."
Marriage
"Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife."
Wife
"Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can."
Being
"I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous."
Artist
"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist."
Defeat
"I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting."
Baby
"A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one."
Marriage
"An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful."
Baby
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