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All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress. - [Apparel] Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. - [Motherhood] Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. - [Unhappiness] The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach. - [Contentment] The wise man reads both books and life itself. - [Wisdom] We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad. - [Expectation] When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. - [Shadows] Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. - The Importance of Living [Food] A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from. - The Importance of Living (ch. 11) [Traveling]
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