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“... it is very hard to know of most men and to know it in many women in the middle of their living what there is in them, what there is as a bottom to them, what there is mixed up inside them. Slowly, more and more, one gets to know them as repeating comes out in them. In the middle of their living they are always repeating, everybody always is repeating in all of their whole living but in the middle of the living of most men and many women it is hard to be sure about them just what it is they are repeating, they are in their living saying many things then and it is hard to know it about them then what it is in them they are repeating that later in their living will show itself to be the whole of them to any one who wants to watch them.”
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“Affection exaggerates its own offenses ... ”
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“Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any ... ”
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“In the Mormon Church the feelings or sufferings of women are seldom considered. If an order is given to any man to take a journey or perform any given task, his wife or wives are not to be thought of. They are his property just as much as his horses, mules, or oxen; and if one wife should die, it is of little consequence if he has others, and if he has not he can easily get them; and if he is not young or fascinating enough to win his way with the young ladies, he has only to keep on good terms with Brigham Young, or even with his bishop, and every difficulty will be smoothed away, and they will be 'counselled' to marry him ...”
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“Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will ...”
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“One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.”
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“Hard times require furious dancing.”
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“... the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.”