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.
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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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A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. – Will it ever be more than a picture?
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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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Young children are such nasty little beasts!
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The less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.
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I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
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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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When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
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The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.
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Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.
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The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
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The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
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Cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!
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I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.
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