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men perfection great-expectations
The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection. Charles Dickens
men years practice
Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
men self world
It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.
men words-of-wisdom aversion
No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.
men glasses light
The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.
men tongue habit
The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.
men words-of-wisdom daylight
He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.
men sea waiting
Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
men way aging
I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?
miserable discontent
What is more miserable than discontent? William Shakespeare
miserable very-happy i-can
Why would I make one woman so miserable when I can make so many women very happy? Benny Hill
miserable
We're going to McDonald's. We had a miserable day. Russ Moore
miserable time
It was the most miserable part of any time I've been here. Michael Young
miserable homeless wit
I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable. Ben Okri
miserable made situation
There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman. Brendan Behan
miserable you-left-me dear
Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here. Al Yankovic
miserable
But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it? Jane Austen
miserable poet
I knew that poets seemed to be miserable. Billy Collins
pleasure duty
One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty. Alan Bennett
pleasure given recollection
To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life. Agnes Repplier
pleasure
There is a pleasure in affecting affectation. Charles Lamb
pleasure pleasant
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
pleasure
I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge. Charles Baudelaire
pleasure violence
It was random, indiscriminate violence for what can only have been pleasure.
pleasure
It?s a very well-balanced team, and they?re a pleasure to coach.
pleasure science whenever
Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science. Alan Alda
pleasure products
Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure David Brooks