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• Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade, since it consists principally of dealings with men.
  -- Conrad...
• Whatever woman do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.
  Luckily, this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitto...
• I fish not because I regard fishing as being terribly important, but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant, and not nearly so much fun.
• The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived. -- Oscar Wilde
• To love is good, love being difficult.
• The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary
  men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. -- Joseph Conrad...
• ...for the most part happiness consists in being willing to be what you are. -- Erasmu
• Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself. Kajetan von Schlaggenberg