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• Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.
  And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd....
• I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed
  hat never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat....
• My girlfriend told me that she was seeing another man. I told her to rub her eyes. -- Emo Philip
• My girlfriend wanted to see the world, so I bought her an atlas.
• I ask only one thing. I'm understanding. I'm mature.
  And it isn't much to ask. I want to get back to London, and track her down, and be alone with my Selina -- or not even alone, damn it, merely close to her, close enough to smell her skin, to see the flecked webbing of her lemony eyes, the moulding of her artful lips....
• She was ugly! She was known as a two-bagger. That's a girl who's so ugly, when you go out with her you put a bag over your head in case the bag over her head breaks.
  She was so ugly, you look in the dictionary under "ugly" and you see her picture....
• I told her, "Like (*&^%$# you are!
• With her body, woman is more sincere than man; but with her mind she lies.
  And when she lies, she does not believe herself. -- Tolstoy...
• It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versaille
  and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision....