Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.
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There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.
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And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to which you condemn in advance all the wretched felons your police have hunted from the beginning -- enemies of society, as you call them. You're kind enough to include the blasphemers and the profane. What proud or reasonable man could stomach such a notion of God's justice? And when you find that notion inconvenient it's easy enough for you to put it on one side. Hell is not to love any more, Madame. Not to love any more!
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Madame d'Estampes and Madame de Valentinois make me fear that I should be only honoured by my husband as a queen and not loved by him as a wom...
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I am where I am because of the bridges that I crossed. Sojourner Truth was a bridge. Harriet Tubman was a bridge. Ida B. Wells was a bridge. Madame C. J. Walker was a bridge. Fannie Lou Hamer was a bridge.
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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.
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A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters Dear Sir (or Madame) You may be right.
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Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.
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Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them.
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Dorothy MacMillian: “What are you looking forward to now ?” Madame de Gualle: “A penis” General de Gualle: “My dear, I think the English don’t pronounce the word quite like that. It’s not ‘a penis’ but ‘appiness’.
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My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.
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It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that ;their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.
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Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?
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Hell, Madame, is to love no longer.
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The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
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Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.
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One crime is everything, two is nothing.
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We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.
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There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
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Sow good services sweet remembrances will grow them.
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
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Youth should be a savings bank.
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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.
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Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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Perseverance and audacity generally win!
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The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.
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Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.
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I am glad that I am not a man, for if I were I should have to marry a woman.
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