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A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.
Underwoods. Timber; or, Discoveries made upon men and matter. Horace, Of the art of poetry [with an English translation by Jonson]. The English gramma -
A woman... always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem.
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A woman’s place is in the struggle.
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A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
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Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.
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Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.
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After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
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Ahimas is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Essay on Man 1, 276 -
All customs and traditions, all our way of life, everything to do with home and order, has crumbled into dust in the general upheaval and reorganization of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the naked human soul stripped to the last shred, for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.
Doctor Zhivago (1958) Ch. 13 -
All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman
The Kite Runner -
All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.
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All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.
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All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
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