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“There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Soul #Body #Misery
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“A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Doubt #Truth Is
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“Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Dream #Thinking #Expectations
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“love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Men #Imagination
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“Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Marriage #Unhappy #Ems
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“A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Meat #Politician #Butchers
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“We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Regret #Men #Desire
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“Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Men #Self-importance
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“Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature.”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Faults #Adore #Creatures
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“There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Loneliness #Ill #Sociability
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“All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Vanity #Discovering
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“All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Virtue #Degrading
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“In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Destiny #Men #Unity
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“It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Imagination #Fields #Beast
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“To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Ideas #Horror #Easy
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“If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Humor #Sense Of Humor #Deals
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“When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Men #May #Forget
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“Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Mistake #Destiny #Men
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“I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Might #Steps #Wonder
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“A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Men #Careers #Wife
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“Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Women #Ocean #Eden
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“Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Giving #Might #Hours
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“Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Men #Thinking
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“What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong.”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Beauty #Beautiful
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“People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Clothes #Sight #People
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“Talking to you is only thinking to myself - made easier.”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Thinking #Talking #Conversation
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“entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death ...”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Entertainment #Sake #Form
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“To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life.”
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#Life #Sacrifice #Love Is
