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“A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.”
“Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.”
“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”
“I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.”
“It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.”
“Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.”
“The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.”
“But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.”
“There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.”
“Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.”
“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.”
“Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.”
“If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.”
“Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.”
“Who loves, raves.”
“In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.”
“All farewells should be sudden, when forever.”
“Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.”
“As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.”
“The busy have no time for tears.”