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Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
You may have as many words as you please, – only I can’t stay to hear them.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
A hardness such as this is taught by rough experience and despair alone.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
When a lady condescends to apologize, there is no keeping one’s anger.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
It is deeds not words which must purchase my affection and esteem.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
I do believe a young lady can't be too careful who she marries.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
If she were more perfect, she would be less interesting.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
I perceive the backs of young ladies' drawings, like the postscripts of their letters, are the most important and interesting part of the concern.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
No one can be happy in eternal solitude.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
If I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
Since I love him so much, I can easily forgive him for loving himself.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
He despises me, because he knows I love him.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
What can't be cured must be endured.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
Of him to whom less is given, less will be required, but our utmost exertions are required of us all.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
I sometimes think she has no feeling at all; and then I go on till she cries — and that satisfies me.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
What are their thoughts to you or me, so long as we are satisfied with ourselves — and each other.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)