It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art. – Margaret Oliphant
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society. – Margaret Oliphant
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. – Margaret Oliphant
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? – Margaret Oliphant
Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents. – Karl Marx