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  1. Oxford walls have a way of belittling us; and the Duke was loath to regard his doom as trivial. Aye, by all minerals we are mocked. Vegetab…
  2. It is so much easier to covet what one hasn't than to revel in what one has. Also, it is so much easier to be enthusiastic about what exist…
  3. He heard that whenever a woman was to blame for a disappointment, the best way to avoid a scene was to inculpate oneself.
  4. She was one of those people who say 'I don't know anything about music really, but I know what I like.'
  5. One has never known a good man to whom dogs were not dear; but many of the best women have no such fondness. You will find that the woman w…
  6. You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a whole flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of…
  7. The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
  8. A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to…

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