"Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before."

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Source : William Wycherley, Marvin T. Herrick (1970). “The Country Wife”, p.47, Barron's Educational Series

William Wycherley

#Love Quotes #Littles Quotes #Rich Quotes

“Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.”
“Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.”
“There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.”

Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". "NOVA", www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.
“Life loves the person who dares to live it.”
“The substitute that thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.”
“The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt,p. 653-54, Curiosities of Literature, 1922.
“There is no way that I could pinpoint just one person. When I first started, I was listening to Randy Rogers quite a bit, and I was also pretty big into Josh Grider back then. I remember going to a lot of Kevin Fowler shows early, and Eli Young Band was another one of the groups I listened to a lot of when I was learning to write and play guitar.”
“Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.”

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