God has made as many varieties of men as of berries, whereof some are wholesome and some poisonous, yet they all have their uses.
“Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.”
― The Mysterious Affair at Styles
― The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“Monsieur, if a wife's nature loathes that of the man she is wedded to, marriage must be slavery. Against slavery all right thinkers revolt, and though torture be the price of resistance, torture must be dared: though the only road to freedom lie through the gates of death, those gates must be passed; for freedom is indispensable. Then, monsieur, I would resist as far as my strength permitted; when that strength failed I should be sure of a refuge. Death would certainly screen me both from bad laws and their consequences.”
― The Professor
― The Professor
“-Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is a skillful architect.
- And interest?
-yes, no doubt; it will be the cement between every stone!”
― The Professor
- And interest?
-yes, no doubt; it will be the cement between every stone!”
― The Professor
“The antipathy which had sprung up between myself and my employer striking deeper root and spreading denser shade daily, excluded me from every glimpse of the sunshine of life; and I began to feel like a plant growing in humid darkness out of the slimy walls of a well.”
― The Professor
― The Professor
“There are impulses we can control, but there are others which control us, because they attain us with a tiger leap, and are our masters ere we have seen them.”
― The Professor
― The Professor
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