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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.

Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.

If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.

I asked her where she was from. She said, ‘Well, I used to be from New Orleans, but I’m not any more.’ Then she looked at her mama and said, ‘Where are we from?’

I'm giving you a chance to do something to control your own destiny. Do something good. Don't sit back and just wring your hands and say the world is terrible.

All rowed fast but none so fast as stroke.

A short absence is the safest.

Could we see when and where we would meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

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