Ellen Glasgow - The romantic comedians (1926)

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The only difference between a rut and a grave, as someone had observed before him, is in their dimensions.

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Her ideas were so correct that it was sometimes difficult for her to make conversation. Talking must be easier and topics more plentiful, she imagined, when one is slightly unsound either in one's mind or in one's opinions.

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Though he had lost the fire of youth, he saw that the comfortable embers of age were still warm.

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Annabel, who frequently confused her dramatic instinct with her emotion, derived not a little pleasure from making a scene.

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Where else on earth, he sighed, could people know as little and yet know it so fluently?

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For it seemed to him that the actual boundary between youth and age is the moment when one realizes that one cannot change life.

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It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.

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You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.

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You could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

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To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.

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Mrs. Bredalbane... laughed with the genial insolence which, it seemed to him, Nature had reserved for twin sisters.

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Though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

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Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

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It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

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