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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may read more
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by read more
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase
With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase
Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
Who pleases one against his will.
Who pleases one against his will.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as read more
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
