Embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever . . .
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Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.Margaret Oliphant
The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness.
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It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
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Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.
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For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.
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