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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like read more
Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.
They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. read more
They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. - read more
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. - The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647.
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant read more
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
Everything is not gold that one sees shining.
[Fr., Que tout n'est pas or c'on voit luire.]
Everything is not gold that one sees shining.
[Fr., Que tout n'est pas or c'on voit luire.]
Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out read more
Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad read more
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us.
And foolish notion;
What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,
And ev'n devotion!
All that glisters is not gold.
All that glisters is not gold.
