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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.  
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.  
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.  
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight f...  
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the lif...  
Easy reading is damn hard writing.  
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in ...  
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it th...  
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond ou...  
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merc...  
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, ...  
Life is made up of marble and mud.  
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must al...  
Moonlight is sculpture.  
My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an...  
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and an...  
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a mar...  
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues,...  
Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us ...  
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economic...  
So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst o...  
Sunlight is painting.  
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happ...  
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not...  
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil ...  
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy m...  
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a tro...  
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictio...  
You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not go...