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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it ju...more

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You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.

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Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike.

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You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.

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People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's ...more

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At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn...more

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you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.

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I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know!

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Always wanting another man than your own.

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I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them--one or two of them particularly-- almost as one of their own sex. I mean I...more

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He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to th...more

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Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal...more