ay against freckles.

7

Charity covers a multitude of sins which are committed in
her name.

8

Life is full of golden opportunities for doing what we do
not want to do.

9

Never compliment a woman and you will earn her undying
enmity. Respect is rarely appreciated by her; but
compliments are always at a premium, even counterfeits being
accepted as greedily as the real.

10

When we grow old we walk unfeelingly over that which we,
in our youth, madly chased.

11

The biggest fool is the one who thinks he can fool others
with impunity without them knowing and resenting it.

12

When we get what we want we are always disappointed to find
that it is not what we wanted.

13

Like does not always worship like: Beauty often worships the
Beast.

14

We were all in the front row when modesty was served out--at
least we think so.

15

Because some men are ruined by intemperance it does not
follow that all should become abstainers, any more than
because some men are ruined by marriage all men should
remain single.

16

What men see in women or women in men to admire is generally
a puzzle to those who know the men and women in question
intimately.

17

The only compliment which a woman really dislikes is that
which is paid to another.

18

Things have changed since Shakespeare's time: men's evil
deeds we write in sympathetic ink; their virtues on marble
tombstones.

19

Our own weaknesses we regard as misfortunes from which we
cannot escape; the weaknesses of others we consider crimes.

20

No matter how well we do, we are sure to be anxious to
impress upon others that what we have achieved is trifling--
compared with that of which we are capable.

21

A woman is not a woman merely by reason of her sex, any more
than an angel is of necessity an angel of light.

22

We are quite able, while hating sin, to pity and be
charitable to the sinner--when we happen to be the sinner
concerned.

23

The commonly accepted idea that a woman of beauty is of
necessity lacking in mental qualities, must have originated
in the head of some woman who possessed neither.

24

The Devil is not as black as he is painted. In fact, he is
more like us than we care to admit.

25

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; and as it is more
blessed to give than to receive, we prefer to do the
wounding.

26

The naked truth and a naked lie
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