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Temptations come as a general rule when they are sought.


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Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.



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To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.



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One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.



The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.



As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.



It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.



Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.



Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.



Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.



All perfection is melancholy.

All perfection is melancholy.





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