“Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.”
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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
