Quote by Havelock Ellis
Charm - which means the power to effect work without employing bru

Charm – which means the power to effect work without employing brute force – is indispensable to women. Charm is a womans strength just as strength is a mans charm. – Havelock Ellis

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The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. – Havelock Ellis

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it. – Havelock Ellis

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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound. – Peace Pilgrim

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