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society pity victim
No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.
ocean society levels
Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.
summer spring flower
The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.
two balls gowns
Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.
half virtue
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
world knows
He who best knows the world will love it least.
mind mouths may
Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.
ideas justice brain
Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.
music two kind
Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.
women virtue defects
Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.
women feelings stronger
Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.
occupation twins born
A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.
couple husband wife
Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.
kings husband wife
An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.