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“The only men who can turn my blood stream into a condition resembling heavy surf are good-looking heels with characters as intricately unpleasant as the sewers of Paris. With decent and honorable gents, I come all over Platonic. Was ever a woman so perverse and wrongheaded?”
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“People didn't change a great deal as they aged, they only became more like whatever they'd started out to be in the first place.”
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“Woe to thee, wild Ambition! I employ / Despair's low notes thy dread effects to tell ...”
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“If girls are highbrow, they must keep it pretty dark. It's a potential sin, and if it is acute, to expose it is sure to make men take to their heels.”
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“ ... ignorance, if not bliss, often saves a good deal of time ...”
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“... some of our sins are so honestly the expression of nature that justification breaks through them.”
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“The world does not willingly admit of complete beings; rather it draws up categories, insists upon types. This is more convenient; as soon as you get one end of a thing you get all; class it, number it, off-hand; the catalogue will not get revised.”
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“... there is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.”