Emily Eden quotes
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“Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?”
-- Emily EdenSource : Emily Eden (1861). “The Semi-attached Couple”, p.120
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“I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about it.”
-- Emily EdenSource : Emily Eden (1860). “The Semi-detached House”, p.212
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“what are we all sent into the world for, but to be of use to each other?”
-- Emily EdenSource : Emily Eden (1860). “The Semi-detached House”, p.231
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“It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!”
-- Emily EdenSource : Emily Eden (1860). “The Semi-detached House”, p.174
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“There is nothing so catching as refinement.”
-- Emily EdenSource : Emily Eden (1861). “The Semi-attached Couple”, p.356
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“People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.”
-- Emily EdenSource : Emily Eden (1861). “The Semi-attached Couple”, p.8
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“The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.”
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“What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.”
Source : ANDRE MALRAUX (1968). “ANTI-MEMOIRS”
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“Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.”
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“It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.”
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“At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.”
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