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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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An optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.