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It was a marvellous morning, clear as a mirror, warm as the promise of love, bright as heaven.

— Nicholas Monsarrat The Kappillan of Malta (1973)

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The batiste ties from Charvet in Paris … bespoke a certain kind of decadent taste

Smith and Jones (1963)

Ericson was a big man, broad and tough: a man to depend on, a man to remember: about forty-two or -three, fair hair going grey, blue eyes as level as a foot rule, with wrinkles at the corners — the product of humour and of twenty years' staring at a thousand horizons.

The Cruel Sea (1951)

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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