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All perfection is melancholy.
Margaret Oliphant / Novelist
Melancholy
Perfection
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There is nothing so costly as bargains.
Margaret Oliphant / Novelist
Bargains
Shopping
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There's looks as speaks as strong as words.
Margaret Oliphant / Novelist
Looks
Speak
Strong
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Many love me, but by none am I enough beloved.
Margaret Oliphant / Novelist
Beloved
Enough
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Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
Margaret Oliphant / Novelist
Inspirational
Self Help
Temptation
General Rule
Rule
Sought
Temptations
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The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.
Margaret Oliphant / Novelist
Character
Life Is
Middle
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I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.
Margaret Oliphant / Novelist
Next
Reading
Thinking
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It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.
Margaret Oliphant / Novelist
This World
Timing
World
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One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.
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Disagreeable
Duty
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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
Margaret Oliphant / Novelist
Happiness
Laughter
Pain
More Or Less
Purchased
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Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.
Margaret Oliphant / Novelist
Kindness
Beautiful
Done
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Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.
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Imagination
Compassion
Firsts
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To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
Margaret Oliphant / Novelist
Men
Flirting
Flirty
Indispensable
Leader
Flirt
Next Thing
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Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.
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Truth
Cases
Suits
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Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.
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Enmity
Mind
Next
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Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.
Margaret Oliphant / Novelist
Blessed
Children
Sweet
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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 / Novelist
Being Yourself
Fashion
Style
Twenty
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The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.
Margaret Oliphant / Novelist
Running
Flower
Weed
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Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.
Margaret Oliphant / Novelist
Men
Poverty
Spring
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there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.
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Experience
People
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Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves.
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Fighting
May
People
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every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.
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Conceit
Generations
Opinion
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Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent.
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Found
Guilt
Sometimes
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A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.
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Home
Travel
World
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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.
Margaret Oliphant / Novelist
Gentleman
Giving
Mind
Gentlemen
Requires
Satisfy
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Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.
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Bitter
Cups
Misery
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It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom.
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Doubt
Secret
Self
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I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.
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Dividing
People
Way
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Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.
Margaret Oliphant / Novelist
Expression
Fun
Laughing
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There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.
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Assumption
Ears
Weakness
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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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Art
Excellent
Fate
Long
Long Life
Virtue
Chiefly
Life Art Long
Credited
Production
Morals
Satisfactory
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As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.
Margaret Oliphant / Novelist
Home
Travel
Museums
Home Always Me
Abroad
Home Look Me
Pictures
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... I have always been a disappointment to my friends. I have no gift of talk, not much to say; and though I have always been an excellent listener, that only succeeds under auspicious circumstances.
Margaret Oliphant / Novelist
Disappointment
Excellent
Succeed
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Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence.
Margaret Oliphant / Novelist
Family
Agitation
Long
Years
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Perhaps, on the whole, 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, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.
Margaret Oliphant / Novelist
Movement
Thinking
Two
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I scarcely remember any writer who has ever ventured to say that the half of the work of the world is actually accomplished by women; and very few husbands who would be otherwise than greatly startled and amazed, if not indignant, if not derisive, at the suggestion of such an idea as that the work of their wives was equal to their own.
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Equality
Work
Husband
Ideas
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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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Animal
Hands
Mother
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... up to this date, I have never been shut up in a separate room, or hedged off with any observances. My study, all the study I have attained to, is the little 2nd drawing room where all the (feminine) life of the house goes on; and I don't think I have ever had two hours undisturbed (except at night, when everybody is in bed) during my whole literary life.
Margaret Oliphant / Novelist
Night
Thinking
Two
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