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A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.

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Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

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If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!

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For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.

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Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

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