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"Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance."
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| Oscar Wilde | A Woman of No Importance |
Discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in process of losing or regaining faith in Mother Church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude.
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| F. Scott Fitzgerald | This Side of Paradise |
"Very foolish it is to use the wrong word to a stranger; for though the heart may be clean of offence, how is the stranger to know that? He is more like to search truth with a dagger."
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| Rudyard Kipling | Kim |
It was admitted by all her friends, and also by her enemies--who were in truth the more numerous and active body of the two--that Lizzie Greystock had done very well with herself.
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| Anthony Trollope | The Eustace Diamonds |
There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.
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| Jerome K. Jerome | Three Men in a Boat |
"A spoken word, Sir Abraham, is often of more value than volumes of written advice."
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| Anthony Trollope | The Warden |
"Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them."
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| Louisa May Alcott | Jo's Boys |
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead."
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| William Shakespeare | Henry V |
"The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error."
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| George Bernard Shaw | Man And Superman |
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
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| Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe |
