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There are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen. — Margaret Oliphant

Many love me, but by none am I enough beloved. — Margaret Oliphant

Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind ... — Margaret Oliphant

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society. — Margaret Oliphant

It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom. — Margaret Oliphant

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case. — Margaret Oliphant

There is nothing so costly as bargains. — Margaret Oliphant

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit ... — Margaret Oliphant

Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves. — Margaret Oliphant

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming ... — Margaret Oliphant

Every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it. — Margaret Oliphant

A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home. — Margaret Oliphant

The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength. — Margaret Oliphant

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it. — Margaret Oliphant

I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't. — Margaret Oliphant

There's looks as speaks as strong as words ... — Margaret Oliphant

The eye is deceitful as well as the heart. — Margaret Oliphant

Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind. — Margaret Oliphant

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do. — Margaret Oliphant

All perfection is melancholy. — Margaret Oliphant

Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent ... — Margaret Oliphant

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? — Margaret Oliphant

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others. — Margaret Oliphant

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted ... — Margaret Oliphant

Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children. — Margaret Oliphant

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better. — Margaret Oliphant

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do ... — Margaret Oliphant

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended. — Margaret Oliphant

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. — Margaret Oliphant