It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

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A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

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Epitaph on a pessimist

I'm Smith of Stoke aged sixty odd
I've lived without a dame all my life
And wish to God
My dad had done the same.

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The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.

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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

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I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

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Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

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