Geoffrey's own heart felt inconveniently large just then.
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My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am...
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She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to ...
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I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest form of affection is based on full sincerit...
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Love lives on propinquity but dies on contact.
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We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man, but there is a breadth of vision in the free man which in the lover we vainly ...
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexe...
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Kiss my foot, sir; my face is for mouths of consequence.
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Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away he...
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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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...
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Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she en...
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Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in.
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As to our going on together as we were going, in a sort of friendly way, the people round us would have made it unable to continue. Their views of the...
