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Bless thy simplicity, Tess
All romances end at marriage.
Done because we are too many.
War makes rattling good history.
Fear is the mother of foresight.
Some folk want their luck buttered.
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
Always wanting another man than your own.
The defective can be more than the entire.
But no one came. Because no one ever does.
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.
You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.
I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.
Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one
You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes
You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?
If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.
You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
That aspects are within us; and who seems Most kingly is the King.
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.
Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?
Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.
Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.