Constantly just to herself, mind! This is the quality of true passion.
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Sandra Belloni by George Meredith
"A marriage without love is dishonour."
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Sandra Belloni by George Meredith
"Kissing don't last: cookery do!"
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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith
The task of reclaiming a bad man is extremely seductive to good women.
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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith
January was watering and freezing old earth by turns . . .
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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty Beauty is a power.
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Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith
"The debts we owe ourselves are the hardest to pay."
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Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith
The world prefers decorum to honesty.
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Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith
"Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two."
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Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith
The well of true wit is truth itself, the gathering of the precious drops of right reason, wisdom's lightning; and no soul possessing and dispensing it can justly be a target for the world, however well armed the world confronting her.
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Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith