"It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on end, trembling and turning hot and cold at only a look from one woman out of all the rest i' the world. It's a mystery we can give no account of."

-- George Eliot

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“For my victory over Capablanca I am indebted primarily to my superiority in the field of psychology. Capablanca played, relying almost exclusively on his rich intuitive talent. But for the chess struggle nowadays one needs a subtle knowledge of human nature, an understanding of the opponent's psychology.”
“And so I ask, "Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?" But God, who is the oldest of the philosophers, answers in his weary cryptic way, "Rather think of Sex as Time, and Time as the connection of new circuits.”
“You have to keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.”
“There's a word like overprotective to describe some parents, but no word that means the opposite. What word do you use to describe parents who don't protect enough? Underprotective? Neglectful? Self-involved? Lame? All of the above.”
“I fear that for the most part people are worshiping worship rather than worshiping God and communing with Him.”
“You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.”

Source : Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Jules Jacques Veyrassat (1874). “Chapters on Animals”, p.48
“we wish for more in life rather than more of it.”

Source : Jean Ingelow (1873). “Off the Skelligs: Collection of British and American Authors”, p.293
“Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo.”

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