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"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."

"There was no romance about the mosquitos, however."

"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."

"I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really."

"Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic."

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

"To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much."
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"The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away and yet constantly coming on."

"What then remains, but well our power to use,And keep good humour still whate'er we lose?And trust me, dear, good humour can prevail,When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."

"Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."

"Let Sporus tremble - "What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?"Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded wings,This painted Child of Dirt that stinks and stings; Whose Buzz the Witty and the Fair annoys,Yet Wit ne'er tastes, and Beauty ne'er enjoys."

"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."
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