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Margaret Oliphant
Margaret Oliphant
Scottish Novelist
Born: Apr 4, 1828
Died: Jun 25, 1897
Better Fashion General Rule Man Mind Style
Related authors: Dorothy Dunnett George MacDonald Irvine Welsh Kenneth Grahame Muriel Spark Walter Scott
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. Margaret Oliphant
Rule Temptations General General Rule Come Sought
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society. Margaret Oliphant
Man Leader Society Indispensable Next Next Thing Who Flirt Thing
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? Margaret Oliphant
Happiness Pain Purchased More More Or Less Which Less
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art. Margaret Oliphant
Life Art Quality Fate Long Virtue Has-Been Morals Excellent Long Life Industry Been Chiefly Little Production Satisfactory Credited
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better. Margaret Oliphant
Fashion Better Mind Style Own Never Always Times Oh Twenty
As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke. Margaret Oliphant
Home Me You Trouble Joke Worst Would Would-Be Abroad Pictures Beyond Look Sort Always Got Going Things Museums

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