It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession . . .
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Her love was entire as a child's, and though warm as summer it was fresh as spring.
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Their lives were ruined,he thought ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling . . .
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In a solitude of the sea
Deep from human vanity,
And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.
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Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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