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Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

They seek him here, they seek him there
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere
Is he in heaven or is he in hell?
That demned elusive Pimpernel

The evil we do, Monsieur, is within us; it does not come from circumstance.

Women have done strange things; they are a far greater puzzle to the student of human nature than the sterner, less complex sex has ever been.

She looks very virtuous and very melancholy."
"Virtue is like the precious odors, most fragrant when it is crushed.

The weariest nights, the longest days, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.

Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not," ...

You call him treacherous now, but you loved him once.' 'It is because I loved him once,' she rejoined earnestly, 'that I call him treacherous now.

No man who has played a role on the world stage has ever been without his detractors, and only a few have been without their apologists.

Anonymity crowned him as if t'were the halo of romantic glory.

Mr. Hempseed shook his head with an infinity of wisdom, tempered by deeply-rooted mistrust of the British climate and the British Government.

You know my belief in bald-headed Fortune, with the one solitary hair. Well, I meant to grab that hair ...

Her whole body stiffened as with a great and firm resolution. This she meant to do, if God gave her wits and strength.

A woman's heart is such a complex problem - the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution to this puzzle.

Idyllic follies never last, my little Chauvelin ... They come upon us like the measles ... and are as easily cured.

Look at this limp cravet. And the sad state of those cuffs. I can hardly bring myself to look upon them.

When a country goes mad, it has the right to commit every horror in its own wall

Odd's fish, m'dear! The man can't even tie his own cravat!

She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him

He made her laugh always made her taste a strange and exquisite bliss when he held her in his arms.

We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops

Tis only in the future you can prove your true worth.

My wits supply, sir, what my sword cannot always command.

Your conscience troubles you unnecessarily, and you see a deliberate intention in every simple act.

No! The captain of the guard was that damned Englishman in disguise, and everyone of his soldiers aristos! The

Strange! - I wonder when it got there? It is from the

Too late, my dear Monsieur Chambertin! Sir Percy's mocking voice broke in,

She stood there before them, in all the unconscious insolence of beauty, and

Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine

The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.

Among the hard lessons which varying Fortune teaches to those whom she most neglects, there is none so useful as self-control.

His pride and her beauty had been in direct conflict, and his pride had remained the conqueror.

It is only in our beautiful France that wholesale slaughter is done lawfully, in the name of liberty and of brotherly love

Even the sparrows on the house-tops are objects of suspicion.

Pride had given way at last, obstinacy was gone: the will was powerless.