"Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does."

-- George Bernard Shaw

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“Knowing he was suffering pained me. Thatâ€™s the way love tangles you up. I couldnâ€™t stop loving him, and couldnâ€™t shut off the feelings of wanting to care for himâ€” but I also didnâ€™t have to run to answer his letters. I was hurting, too, and no one was running to me.”

Source : Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.304, Ballantine Books
“when your field is architecture, you go visit the great cathedrals of the world. My field was relationships. I got married many times. I was practicing. I didn't date much; I just would get married. I thought, why waste time?”
“One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.”

Source : Barbara Hambly (2011). “Bride of the Rat God”, p.42, Open Road Media
“Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.”
“Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.”

Source : Francis Parkman (1871). “Pioneers of France in the New World”, p.208
“Between my past, the present and the future, there is one common factor: Relationship and Trust. This is the foundation of our growth.”
“I feed my kids organic food and milk, but I've also been known to buy the odd Lunchable. My kids are not allowed to watch TV during the week, but on weekends even the 2-year-old veges out to 'The Simpsons.”
“It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.”

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