“Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.”
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.