A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.
JANE WELSH CARLYLEPeople who are so dreadfully “devoted” to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people’s wives as well.
More Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes
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I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.
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On earth the living have much to bear; the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.
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Homeopathy – an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it.
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The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset – that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.
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It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.
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In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.
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When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
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Youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!
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Young children are such nasty little beasts!
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Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
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Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least.
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I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
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The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother’s loss makes itself felt.
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People who are so dreadfully “devoted” to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people’s wives as well.
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Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.
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