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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
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It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.
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My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon In the pathway of the morrows. He'll live his days where the sunbeams start, Nor could storm or wind uproot him. My own dear love, he is all my heart, -- And I wish somebody'd shoot him.
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INTERIORHer mind lives in a quiet room, A narrow room, and tall,With pretty lamps to quench the gloom And mottoes on the wall.There all the things are waxen neat And set in decorous lines;And there are posies, round and sweet, And little, straightened vines.Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain,And bolts the door against her heart, Out wailing in the rain.
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God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds have been off reading for years. Look at the swing La Rouchefoucauld took at it. He said that if nobody had ever learned to read, very few people would be in love. Good for you, La Rouchefoucauld; nice going, boy. I wish I’d never learned to read.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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