Most of the beauty of women ...

Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.
Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.
 Cyril Connolly

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
 Cyril Connolly
Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.
 Cyril Connolly
The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.
 Cyril Connolly
The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.
 Cyril Connolly
The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the isolation of all other forms of composition; for most good talkers, when they have run down, are miserable; they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to dispense it in noises upon the air.
 Cyril Connolly