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How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!

Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.

Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it's as well even to take its blessings quietly.

Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favored by exceptional circumstances.

Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

He was a square, pale-faced man of almost forty, and had the appearance of having outlived every emotion to which humanity is subject.

London's like a forest ... we shall be lost in it.

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

Do you think I will suffer myself to be baffled?

And he knew that our dreams are none the less terrible to lose, because they have never been the realities for which we have mistaken them.

Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?

There were many beautiful vipers in those days and she was one of them. ("Eveline's Visitant")

It is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.

He thought of his love now as duty.

Sir Harry Towers cares.

What have you to do with hearts, except for dissection?

[...] that magic power of fascination by which a woman can charm with a word or intoxicate with a smile

They were dreamers - and they dreamt themselves into the cemetery.

Guilt soon learns to lie.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.