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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

It’s a surer way to a woman’s heart to be interested in what she’s thinking than what she’s wearing or not wearing.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I’ll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I’m good.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, – and the stars through his soul.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.