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Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.

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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.

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It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.

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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.

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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

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A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.

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Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.

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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.

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Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

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Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.

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To a woman--I mean, a nice woman--there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, however unfavourably, or so much in love with him that she never mentions his name.

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You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

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As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

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Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin, I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.

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All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.

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Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!

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When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!

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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.

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