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He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.
For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.
In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing them spoken, but we grow into them by experience and recognize them through understanding. Understanding is a great experience in itself, but it does not come through instruction.
But if it be never - if I can never hold sweet converse again with her, or look upon her face, or know from her her love; why, then, this side the grave, I will live as becomes the man whom she loves ...
You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
Ah! but a man cannot be held to write down in cold blood the wild and black thoughts that storm his brain when an uncontrolled passion has battered a breach for them. Yet, unless he sets up as a saint, he need not hate himself for them. He is better employed, as it humbly seems to me, in giving thanks that power to resist was given to him ...
If love were the only thing, I
would follow you - in rags, if need be - to the world's end; for you hold
my heart in the hollow of your hand! But is love the only thing?
I know people write and talk as if it were. Perhaps, for some, Fate lets
it be. Ah, if I were one of them! But if love had been the only thing, you
would have let the King die in his cell.
Honour binds a woman too, Rudolf. My honour lies in being true to
my country and my House. I don't know why God has let me love you;
but I know that I must stay.
It is my belief that, given the necessary physical likeness, it was far easier to pretend to be king of Ruritania than it would have been to personate my next-door neighbor.
A real king's life is perhaps a hard one; but a pretended king's is, I warrant, much harder.
I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).
I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.
Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
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Old Sapt's mouth wrinkled into a smile.
"God save 'em both!" he whispered.
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