But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them. Mansfield Park
How singular is the thing called pleasure, and how curiously related to pain, which might be thought to be the opposite of it; for they never come to a man together, and yet he who pursues either of them is generally compelled to take the other. They are two, and yet they grow together out of one head or stem. The Trials Of Socrates
“Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.” The Prince
It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all. Following the Equator
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