A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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Align yourself with outstanding strategic partners. ~Carol Roth
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow. ~Henry Adams
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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. ~Jane Austen
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A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably. ~John Bunyan
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Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~Jane Fonda
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Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, "Overwhelming feeling of dread." That was going to go over nicely. ~Anne Ursu
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If you weren't pretty, it wouldn't matter what you said or didn't say. That's why you're getting this attention. ~Miesha Tate
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved, it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin. ~Pope Pius IX
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Among the southern tribes, on the contrary, hats were sometimes worn in the dance, although this was not considered in strict accordance with the doctrine. ~James Mooney
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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I always say to my Twitter followers to come to the stage door and meet me. What I love about being in the theatre, rather than filming, is that you meet your audience. ~Sheridan Smith
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