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painting deals huge
In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.
husband found-happiness wife
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
men iron sheep
Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
angel heart cash
Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.
parent victory defeat
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
things-in-life choices hardest-thing-in-life
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
girl angel forgiving
Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.
men giving wife
No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
character lakes serenity
Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.
work pride mind
This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.
love marriage blessing
Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.
love eye men
A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.
love witty power
I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.
love selfish passion
The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.