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An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, read more
An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.
Mortal love is when sensuality is satisfied. True love is when love is sacrificed.
Mortal love is when sensuality is satisfied. True love is when love is sacrificed.
How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity read more
How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.
Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and read more
Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other read more
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
He is rich that is satisfied.
He is rich that is satisfied.
It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.
It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to read more
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to read more
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
