Each woman virtually summons every man to show cause why he doth not love her. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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If we are only as the potter's clay
Made to be fashioned as the artist wills,
And broken into shards if we offend
The eye of Him who made us, it is well.

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Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.

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Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.

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