Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him...In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more she delighted the heart of man because she seemed to escape the metamorphosis of natural things. The result is this strange paradox that by desiring to grasp nature, but transfigured, in woman, man destines her to artifice.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Compliment is taken literally only by the savage. The accuracy of compliment is not that of algebra.
W. C. Brownell
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A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases.
Edwin Lefevre
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I like traveling, eating, and relaxing at home.
Mohit Chauhan
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Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning.
Elihu Burritt
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I want to be alone ... I just want to be alone.
William A. Drake