Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again

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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

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Almost anything is possible with time

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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

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A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

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It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

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