"my uncle ... had the misfortune to be ever touched in his brain, and, as a convincing proof, married his maid, at an age when he and she both had more occasion for a nurse than a parson."

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Source : Mary Robinson, Charlotte Charke (1830). “Memoirs”

Charlotte Charke

#Marriage Quotes #Uncles Quotes #Nurse Quotes

“Things can change. Life is all a learning process.”
“May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!”
“If you devote yourself entirely to a pursuit, there is no way you cannot find beauty and fulfillment.”
“Some people in this life really enjoy being sent up and Nicholas Parsons is one of them because he's a sadomasochist.”
“Having nothing to lose is the new wealth.”
“I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.”
“There's only one difference between Jews and Catholics. Jews are born with guilt, and Catholics have to go to school to learn it.”
“Itâ€™s too bad if a heart lacks fire, and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze. The day on which you are without passionate love is the most wasted day of your life.”

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