With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavours and the tinglings of a merited shame.
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She and Stephen were in that stage of courtship which makes the most exquisite moment of youth, the freshest blossom-time of passion,--when each is sure of the other's love, but no formal declaration has been made, and all is mutual divination, exalting the most trivial word, the lightest gesture, into thrills delicate and delicious as wafted jasmine scent.George Eliot
To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
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If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.
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It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
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It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
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