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"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order."
Poetry
"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain."
Imagination
"Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind."
Advice
"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."
Happiness
"What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul."
Soul
"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."
Future
"Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style."
Bible
"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm."
Enthusiasm
"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."
Being
"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."
Architecture
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"Apparently some people (who don't know history) seem to think that marriage 'always has been' exclusively between males and females - and that this modern inequality somehow justifies the enforced continuation of this inequality."
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Personal Development
"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."
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Personal Development
"Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after."
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Personal Development
"Marriage is but a consolidation of resources."
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Personal Development
"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier."
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Personal Development
"Husband: a former boyfriend."
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Personal Development
"Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret."
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Personal Development
"It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one."
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Personal Development
"When you marry you marry the known and unknown man or woman."
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Personal Development
"When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage."
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