“Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.”
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
I must take issue with the term 'a mere child, ' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.