There are wrongs for which religion makes no provision, and of which it has no comprehension.
--"Wanda

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Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

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He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.

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Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which no philters and no prayers can renew when once it has fled forever?
Women are so unwise. Love is like a bird's song beautiful and eloquent when heard in forest freedom, harsh and worthless in repetition when sung from behind prison bars.
You cannot secure love by vigilance, by environment, by captivity. What use is it to keep the person of a man beside you if his soul be truant from you?

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I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

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The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.

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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

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Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

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I have know a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

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