“There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. ”
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“There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. ”
“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life”
“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself”
“Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble”
“Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion”
“The majority of men devote the greater part of their lives to making their remaining years unhappy.”
“Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.”
“Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.”
“Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.”