It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind. - Margaret Oliphant
Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.
- Margaret Oliphant
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better. - Margaret Oliphant
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do. - Margaret Oliphant
One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.
It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted. - Margaret Oliphant
It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.
The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength. - Margaret Oliphant
The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.
I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't. - Margaret Oliphant
I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.
every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it. - Margaret Oliphant
every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.
there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen. - Margaret Oliphant
there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.
The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended. - Margaret Oliphant
The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.
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