Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
THOMAS HARDYSome women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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All romances end at marriage.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.
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Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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