When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.
OuidaThe art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.
OuidaFriendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word.
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