They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.

Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much

You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant!
But yet you draw not iron, for my heart
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You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant!
But yet you draw not iron, for my heart
Is true as steel.

O, where is loyalty?
If it be banished from the frosty head,
Where shall it find a read more

O, where is loyalty?
If it be banished from the frosty head,
Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?

To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.

To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.

I never will desert Mr. Micawber.

I never will desert Mr. Micawber.

People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their read more

People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.