Parents are apt to see no injustice in the fact that they are often annoyed with their offspring for possessing attributes, both of character and appearance, with which they themselves have endowed them.
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The Rosary
by
Florence L. Barclay
"Unbidden guests
Are often welcomest when they are gone."
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Henry VI, Part One
by
William Shakespeare
Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey SAT through life.
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The Woman in White
by
Wilkie Collins
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato.
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Villette
by
Charlotte Bronte
For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.
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The Old Curiosity Shop
by
Charles Dickens
Over and over again in my past experience among my perishing fellow-creatures, the members of the notoriously infidel profession of Medicine had stepped between me and my mission of mercy—on the miserable pretence that the patient wanted quiet, and that the disturbing influence of all others which they most dreaded, was the influence of Miss Clack and her Books.
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The Moonstone
by
Wilkie Collins
"You might have married him not because you loved him, but because you didn't love anybody else. When one is young, one marries out of mere curiosity, just to see what it's like."
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The Philanderer
by
George Bernard Shaw
"The fickleness of women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."
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The Philanderer
by
George Bernard Shaw
Apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
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I Will Repay
by
Baroness Emmuska Orczy
"I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull."
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The Old Bachelor
by
William Congreve