"It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women."

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Theophile Gautier

#Manners Quotes #Gentle Quotes #Prove Quotes

“Soon will set in the fitful weather, with fierce gales and sullen skies and frosty air, and it will be time to tuck up safely my roses and lillies and the rest for their winter sleep beneath the snow, where I never forget them, but ever dream of their wakening in happy summers yet to be.”
“Last night I was struggling with a stomach ache, but [the trainer] gave me some medicine, an IV and I felt good out there today.”
“So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.”
“We ask the leaf, "Are you complete in yourself?" And the leaf answers, "No, my life is in the branches." We ask the branch, and the branch answers, "No my life is in the root." We ask the root, and it answers, "No my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves, and I shall die," So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual.”
“My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tuned in to country music. I don't know who Brooks and Dunn are. I like Shania Twain, though!”
“I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.”
“The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.”
“If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.”

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