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Women are more frequently charming than men, because they are less self-conscious.
The Garden That I Love: Second Series (1907)
Repress your antipathies, cultivate your sympathies.
The Garden That I Love: Second Series (1907)
People living and dead, things past and present, all are contributories to that diminutive stream, oneself; a reflection which is essentially consoling, since it associates one with the sum of things and prevents one from living in barren isolation.
The Garden That I Love: Second Series (1907)
[I]n all periods of transitional thought and belief the conscience suffers, since its old sanctions have been removed and none other have yet taken their place. It is undermined without being adequately propped up.
The Garden That I Love: Second Series (1907)
[C]harm appertains to the essence of the person or thing endowed with it. It cannot be acquired, it cannot be got rid of, and its results are produced without effort, since the person who has it cannot help producing them.
The Garden That I Love: Second Series (1907)