lower opinion of the rest of the world than we now have.
When we care we usually don’t dare; when we dare we don’t often care.
What sounds so sweet as the human voice—to the one who is doing the talking!
Words may be mere wind, but then so is a tornado.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; cry, and the world laughs at you.
A proverbial expression is often a crystallized lie which we should like to believe.
Because everything is for the best it does not follow that it is for our best.
It is easier to moralize than to be moral.
The difference between an actress on the stage and a woman not on the stage is a matter of here and there.
Ignorance is not so surprising, nor such a mark of inferiority, as unwillingness to learn.
He who grows indignant when his veracity is questioned generally has good and sufficient reason therefor.
Our joys are mainly those of prospect and retrospect.
It is not to be expected that the average man should know what a real woman is like—he so rarely sees one.
The Chinese promise and never intend to perform; we promise and do intend to perform.
The result is about the same.
Woman regards the criticizing of her sex as her own prerogative, and criticizes more bitterly than any man would think of doing; but she resents any criticism, no matter how just, from man.
Lambs, it is true, gambol, but in due time they all get fleeced.
What we need is some philosopher to tell us how to be happy when we have every reason for being unhappy.
The most striking trait of the average man is unwillingness to be convinced—that we are right and he is wrong.
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