"The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman."

Marriage, Blind, Man, Woman

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"The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman."

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"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain."

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"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."

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"General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves."

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"Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony."

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"A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive."

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"There are four kinds of readers. The first is like the hourglass; and their reading being as the sand, it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second is like the sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third is like a jelly bag, allowing all that is pure to pass away, and retaining only the refuse and dregs. And the fourth is like the slaves in the diamond mines of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, retain only pure gems."

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