Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind. - Margaret Oliphant

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The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from today even as it overwhelms with unexpected consequences of that extrapolation.

Margaret Oliphant

Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.

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Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

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Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

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To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

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The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

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One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

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