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Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.: Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995), One Fat Englishman (1963)
Hysteria is only possible with an audience.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.: Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992
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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.: C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980)
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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.: Marlo Thomas
I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.: Jean Shinoda Bolen
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.: Floyd Dell
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If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.: Russell P. Askue
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.: Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
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Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.: Han Suyin
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.: Brenda Ueland
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To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content #1356, 03-10-09
What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair - to the anguish of an afflicted one!: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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