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Carve your name in hearts, not marble.
Carve your name in hearts, not marble.
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with read more
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.
There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.
The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him
so completely that he loses read more
The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him
so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which read more
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are read more
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving read more
Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.