Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

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Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

Who can be patient in extremes?

Who can be patient in extremes?

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness,...

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness,...

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired.

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired.

The courses of true love never did run smooth.

The courses of true love never did run smooth.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.

O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without...

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without...

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet...

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet...

Falsehood falsehood cures

Falsehood falsehood cures

There's method in his madness

There's method in his madness

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness,...

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness,...

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and...

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and...

The best way to stand out is the stop trying to fit in. I'd rather...

The best way to stand out is the stop trying to fit in. I'd rather...

Fate and self-help share equally in shaping our destiny

Fate and self-help share equally in shaping our destiny