But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
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That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife’s spirits.
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth – in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world – have not any subsistence without a mind.
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.