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" Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. "

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" Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. "

" What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman. "

" Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. "

" Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons. "

" Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men. "

" Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down. "

" Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. "

" Friendship is Love without his wings! "

" Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger. "

" There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. "

" To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. "

" I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor. "

" Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen. "

" All farewells should be sudden, when forever. "

" Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. "

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" Absence - that common cure of love. "

" He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly? "

" But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of. "

" If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. "

" Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave? "

" I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. "

" One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other. "

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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. "

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" A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. "