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Margaret Oliphant Quotes

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All perfection is melancholy  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) There is nothing so costly as bargains  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) There’s looks as speaks as strong as words  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) Many love me, but by none am I enough beloved  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent ...  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence ...  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one’s own, it is always twenty times better.  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears ...  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) As for pictures and museums, that don’t trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you’ve always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) It is often easier to justify one’s self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one’s own bosom  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) Laughing is not the first expression of joy.... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can’t  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one’s own case  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) Every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) There are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) One only says it is one’s duty when one has something disagreeable to do  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes) The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to!. It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness  (Margaret Oliphant Quotes)
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