"The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband."

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Source : Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.5

Samuel Richardson

#Husband Quotes #Self Quotes #Wife Quotes

“Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.”
“Any attempt to dismiss a phenomenon that is not understood merely by explaining it as hallucination becomes irrelevant when a coherent scientific theory can be applied.”

Source : Amit Goswami (1995). “The Self-Aware Universe”, p.136, Penguin
“Tell Aretha Iâ€™ll be praying for herBecause she needs Jesus!I love her.”
“What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.”
“It's such a surprise for the Eastern eyes to see, That though the English are effete They're quite impervious to heat.”
“I remember those days right after I graduated from college. All I had to do was wake up in the morning and think about writing songs. It's not like that anymore, needless to say.”
“Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.”
“You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.”

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