When will you give up these mad adventures, and leave others to fight their own battles and to … - Baroness Orczy

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Baroness Orczy

When will you give up these mad adventures, and leave others to fight their own battles and to save their own lives as best they may?' When your ladyship has ceased to be the most admired woman in Europe, namely, when I am in my grave.

Adventure, Fighting, Give, Giving Up, Leave, Save

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The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the nerves. It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.

Distant, Gay, Grave, Heart, Melancholy, Sadness

Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not,".

Brain, Brains, Hereditary, May, Money, Titles

There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.

Balm, Sacrifice, Self, Wonderful

In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.

Chains, Destiny, Life, Links, Tended

It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken. . . you take hold of it. . . then you wring its neck. . . it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple. Now you hold a knife at my throat, and a hostage for my obedience. . . You find it simple. . . I don't

Doe, Hold, Knives, Obedience, Simple, Wring