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Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 85 - We may live without poetry, music, and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart ; We may live without friends ; we may live without books ; But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
Σελίδα 86 - We may live without poetry, music, and art ; We may live without conscience, and live without heart ; We may live without friends ; we may live without books ; But civilised man cannot live without cooks. We may live without books — what is knowledge but grieving? We may live without hope — what is hope but deceiving ? We may live without love — what is passion but pining ? But where is the man that can live without dining?
Σελίδα 3 - He foresaw the young man's state of mind to-day about marriage — I must have money before I can marry ; and deals with it thus : " Give us wealth and the home shall exist. But that is a very imperfect and inglorious solution of the problem, and therefore no solution. Give us wealth I You ask too much.
Σελίδα 103 - ... faults and from follies men thus are kept free, There surely the woman deserves a degree. Yet without a degree see how well the Sex knows How to bind up our wounds and to lighten our woes ! They need no Doctor's gown their fair limbs to enwrap, They need ne'er hide their locks in a Graduate's cap. Then I wonder a woman, the Mistress of Hearts, Would descend to aspire to be Master of Arts : A Ministering Angel in Woman we see, And an Angel should covet no other Degree.
Σελίδα 63 - I think that you bore yourself appropriately to the state of life to which it has pleased God to call you.