What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
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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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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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Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
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