Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
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Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.Ouida
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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Excess always carries its own retribution.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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