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mong the hundred thousand mysterious influences which a man exercises over a woman who loves him, I doubt if there is any more irresistible to her tha...more

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Among the hundred thousand mysterious influences which a man exercises over a woman who loves him, I doubt if there is any more irresistible to her th...more

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The books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back...more

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Only give a woman love, and there is nothing she will not venture, suffer, and do.

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Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

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Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and...more

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I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels - none if she remains at home.

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Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young - and spares me. The Pestilence that wastes, t...more

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I should have asked why any room in the house was better than home to me when she entered it, and barren as a desert when she went out again—why I alw...more