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— Lady Hester Stanhope"... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies."
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there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.
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The reason I keep talking about a wife and saying the word wife on stage is because it seems a funny word to me. The more you say it, the more it seems to detach from that person and become this sort of abstract thing: that you would set out to find a wife, that it would be an objective like buying a new car.
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