"lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can both bear to hear and repeat the same things times without number, till the sound becomes the echo to the sense or the nonsense previously uttered."

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Source : Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.316

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

#Art Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Lovers Quotes

“Love and do as you will.”
“I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. Yessir.”

Source : "The Border Trilogy".
“When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.”
“the feet should have more of the acquaintance of earth, and know more of flowers, freshness, cool brooks, wild thyme, and salt sand than does anything else about us. ... It is only the entirely unshod that have lively feet.”

Source : Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.451, eBookIt.com
“I'm too passionate about what I do. I like to get involved.”
“The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.”
“There's going to be ups and downs and that you have to be okay with the downs too and embrace them just as much because they will teach you something.”

Source : Source: www.songfacts.com
“The only reason I have the career I have is that I didn't quit.”

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