"Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy."

Romantic, Romance, Mankind, Service, Whim

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"Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy."

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"It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words."

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"While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance."

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"You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do."

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"The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime."

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"If I call him back here," Cooper whispered in her ear, "will you crawl up my body again?"

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"They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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"People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think."

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"The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story."

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"I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that."

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"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."

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"A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom."

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"Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time."

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"Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off."

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"We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces."

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"Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world."

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"Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road."

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"Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies."

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"Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees."

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"On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle."

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"More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions."

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