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ease good greater impediment others terms
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being at ease with yourself
good-person enough shows
It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.
fashion good-man littles
When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?
feel-good feelings mind
Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.
inspirational good-morning marriage
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
paris doe good-french
Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.
came giant power thus
And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world
bad believe hear
Believe anything you hear about the world; nothing is too impossibly bad
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, and didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
hatred inspires pity weakness
Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.
loaf science
To loaf is a science, to loaf is to live
desk laughing legal money night owner risks
I am laughing to think what risks you take to try to find money in a desk by night where the legal owner can never find any by day.
certain leisure needs position wit
Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position
attached men-and-women scholars-and-scholarship shame suffer woman
To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer