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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? – Margaret Oliphant

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For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it. – Margaret Oliphant

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Gentlemen
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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

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Mans only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. – John Ruskin

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There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. – Henry Drummond

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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more. – Herman Hesse

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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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All men by nature desire knowledge. – Aristotle

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Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations. – Djuna Barnes

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