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The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him. Helen Rowland

Man Woman Heart Imagination Vanity Attract Him Stimulate His Gets May Who Appeals

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them. Henry James

People Never Liked Always Been Interested Them

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know. Henry Lawson

Home Strange Old Lost Ease Ways High Restless Steep Road New Know Track New Ways Oh Low Old Ways Deep

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you. Isabel Allende

You People Country Inside Roots Landscape

I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy. Isabel Allende

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me. Isabel Allende

Family Me Age World Conservative Ancient Ancient Times Born No Wonder Had Knew Wrong Nobody Term Reached Catholic Although Feminist End Wonder End Of The World Five Times Patriarchal Chile Heck Raging

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people. J. B. Priestley

You Yourself People Some People Be Yourself Advice Worst Some About Give

Those who do not complain are never pitied. Jane Austen

Complain Those Never Pitied Who

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. Jane Austen

Man Every Neighborhood Spies Voluntary Surrounded Every Man

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. Jane Austen

Education World Girl Settling Further Introduce Give Properly Ten She Well Without Expense Anybody Means Her

Nobody minds having what is too good for them. Jane Austen

Good Too Minds Having Nobody Them

One man's style must not be the rule of another's. Jane Austen

Man Style Rule Must Another

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's. Jane Austen

Worse Throats Sore Always Than Anyone

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. Jane Austen

Woman Sometimes Before Ten Ten Years She Years Than Happens

It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know them well is to find them unbearable. Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm. Jeffrey Kluger

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. John Cheever

Wisdom Good Strength Knowledge Good And Evil Evil Between Choose Two

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having. John Perry Barlow

Love Hope Love Is Worth Kind Having Only Unconditional Unconditional Love Like

I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian instincts, can actually penetrate the right-wing voice, get through the steering of American opinion by the mass media. John le Carre

You Frustration Every Liberal Right-Wing Penetrate Voice Steering Through Mass Instincts Mass Media Opinion Wonder Begin Get American Same Decent Whether Media Suffer Suffers Actually Humanitarian

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. Jonathan Swift

Politics Word Nothing Corruptions Understood Commonly

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. Jonathan Swift

Best Doctor World Doctors Quiet Diet

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