What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? – 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
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. – Margaret Oliphant
For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it. – Margaret Oliphant
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society. – Margaret Oliphant
I was on the point of cutting the cord that suspended me between heaven and earth… and measured with my eye the vast space that separated me from the rest of the human race… I felt myself precipitated with a velocity that was checked by the sudden unfolding of my parachute. – André-Jacques Garnerin, 1797