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Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it ju...more

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Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike.

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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

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If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways—not in my heart. The worst women are those vain in their hearts, and not in their ways.

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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.

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Kiss my foot, sir; my face is for mouths of consequence.

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She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved...more

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He is as good as anybody in this parish! He is very particular, too, about going to church-yes, he is!''I am afeard nobody ever saw him there. I never...more

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This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock.

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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

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When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

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--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phil...more

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Always wanting another man than your own.

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I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them--one or two of them particularly-- almost as one of their own sex. I mean I...more