Quotes 81 till 100 of 145.
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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
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Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
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Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.
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Marriage is a great institution.
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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.
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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
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Money is the best deodorant.
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Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions.
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Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
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My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.
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Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.
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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
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Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
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Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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On being shown a relic said to be a bone of St. Elizabeth, he (Sigismund) turned it over and remarked that it could just as well be that of a dead cobbler.
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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
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People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
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People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
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