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See now that’s what you get for going to church to see your crush who’s already married

“What is it you gentlemen are thinking of when you are with Mrs. Casaubon?”
“Herself,” said Will… “When one sees a perfect woman, one never thinks of her attributes — one is conscious of her presence.”

It took me a month but I’m halfway through

“And Casaubon had done a wrong to Dorothea in marrying her. A man was bound to know himself better than that, and if he chose to grow grey crunching bones in a cavern, he had no business to be luring a girl into his companionship.”

“The best piety is to enjoy—when you can. You are doing the most then to save the earth's character as an agreeable planet. And enjoyment radiates... Would you turn all the youth of the world into a tragic chorus, wailing and moralizing over misery?”