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— Mary Elizabeth Braddon"love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the sufferer himself, is never clearly understood by those who look on at its torments and wonder why he takes the common fever so badly."
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Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!
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A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.
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