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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - 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
- When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
- Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
- 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
- The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980)
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- 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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