"The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely In the flattering toils of philandery."

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Source : "Eugene Onegin". Book by Alexander Pushkin, 1833.

Alexander Pushkin

#Toil Quotes #Our Love Quotes #Ruins Quotes

“Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique”
“She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness.”
“I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from.”
“'Elections have consequences,' President Obama said, setting his new policy agenda just three days after taking office in 2009. Three elections later, the president's party has lost 70 House seats and 14 Senate seats. The job of Republicans now is to govern with the confidence that elections do have consequences, promptly passing the conservative reform the voters have demanded.”
“... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.”
“Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.”
“Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.”

Source : Elizabeth von Arnim (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)”, p.1042, Delphi Classics
“I would... learn how to drive... have a nice car... and drive it.”

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