Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends, I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken — I to whom there is not beauty enough in moon or tree; to whom the touch of one person with another is all, yet who cannot grasp even that, who am so imperfect, so weak, so unspeakably lonely. The Waves
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent. Never Give In!
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. Pride and Prejudice
As a wolf resembles a dog, so both a flatterer and an adulterer and a parasite resemble a friend. Take care then that instead of watch dogs you do not without knowing it let in mischievous wolves. Fragment
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