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I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm read more
I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as read more
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in read more
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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.
There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.
There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.
Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.
Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought read more
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, read more
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.