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special riches gains
Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.
girl school may
A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.
sorrow mazes adultery
If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.
passion justice victim
Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.
men vanity dupes
A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.
ugly sin ugliness
Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.
pounds timidity
An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.
secret unhappy treasure
Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.
mother children thoughtful
How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.
character thermometers temperament
Temperament is the thermometer of character.
women two suffering
To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?
success wish
We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.
evil contagious sublimity
Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.
two stupidity assuming
Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.