Derek Bok
American lawyer and college administrator
Margaret Oliphant
Scottish novelist, 1828-1897
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphantwas a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant.
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Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphantwas a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works cover “domestic realism, the historical novel and tales of the supernatural”.
7 Quotes by Margaret Oliphant
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It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
Margaret OliphantScottish novelist, 1828-1897
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For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.
Margaret OliphantScottish novelist, 1828-1897
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Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
Margaret OliphantScottish novelist, 1828-1897
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Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one’s own, it is always twenty times better.
Margaret OliphantScottish novelist, 1828-1897
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To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
Margaret OliphantScottish novelist, 1828-1897
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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
Margaret OliphantScottish novelist, 1828-1897
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As for pictures and museums, that don’t trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you’ve always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.
Margaret OliphantScottish novelist, 1828-1897