"People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well."

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Source : Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2011). “Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#People Quotes #Wife Quotes #Infidelity Quotes

“My heart wants roots My mind wants wings. I cannot bear Their bickerings.”
“Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness.”
“My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?”
“Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.”
“If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.”

Source : Donald Hall (2004). “Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected”, p.155, University of Michigan Press
“O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.”

Source : Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies”, p.24
“First, I thought we'd already established that I am not a gentleman. That ship sailed long ago. And second, you'd be surprised what gentlemen do...and what ladies enjoy." ~Lord Bourne”
“Let us regard the forests as an inheritance, given to us by nature, not to be despoiled or devastated, but to be wisely used, reverently honoured and carefully maintained. Let us regard the forests as a gift, entrusted to any of us only for transient care, to be surrendered to posterity as an unimpaired property, increased in riches and augmented in blessings, to pass as a sacred patrimony from generation to generation.”

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