A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by. - Nathaniel Parker Willis

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It wasn't like I was some expert on the meaning of being supportive. Was it being loyal even against your better judgement? Or, like Olivia, was it making your displeasure known from the start, even when someone didn't want to hear it?

Nathaniel Parker Willis

A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by.

Angel, Angels, Earth, Eye, Lamp, Soul

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I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.

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A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.

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Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

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We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.

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There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.

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