If I had not married I should not have learned the quick enrichment of sentences that one gets in conversation; had I not been widowed I should not have found the detachment of mind, the leisure for observation necessary to give insight into character, to express and interpret it. Loneliness made me rich - full, as Bacon says. |
It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't. |
Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth. |