Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered. - William Makepeace Thackeray

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Although I enter not, Yet round about the spot Ofttimes I hover, And near the sacred gate, With longing eyes I wait, Expectant of her.

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The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.

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Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand.

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