John Oliver Hobbes - The sinner's comedy (1892)

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Love comes to man through his senses — to woman through her imagination.

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Talking to you is only thinking to myself — made easier.

John Oliver Hobbes

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster which they call Destiny.

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He longed to make a mark, or, to express it more vulgarly, cut a figure. Now, fortunately or unfortunately, the number of figures which can be cut in the world is practically unlimited; the only difficulty is to cut precisely the kind of figure one would wish.

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He did not speak again till just before he died, when he kissed his wife's hand with singular tenderness and called her 'Elizabeth.' She had been christened Augusta Frederica; but then, as the doctors explained, dying men often make these mistakes.

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'A man's way of loving is so different from a woman's,' sighed Anna. 'There ain't nothing,' said Mrs. Grimmage, 'there ain't nothing that makes them so sulky and turns them against you so soon as saying anything like that.'

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'Ah,' said that gentleman, ever ready to discuss one friend with another — in fact, it was chiefly for this pleasure that he made them...

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