They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
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I am none of those nonsensical fools that can whine and make romantic love—I leave that to younger brothers. Let my estate speak for me.
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The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, 'I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so go...
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.
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Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
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That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is...
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I made him a low curtsy and thanked him for the honor he intended me, but told him I had no kind of ambition to be his upper servant.... I the...
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And now behold the goddess seated on her throne ... receiving the adulation of her worshipper.... An adulation, which translated into plain En...
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Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
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The female part of the Cry (who had many of them often experienced a joyful self- approbation on being told by their admirers that all their p...
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Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity t...
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For me, As You Like It is like an ancient tale, it's like the myth of human existence, really. The myth of courtship, of love and of marriage.
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The gentleman took three or four strides across the room, looked out of the window once or twice, and then turned to me with an awkward bow an...
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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
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Although my royal rank causes me to doubt whether my kingdom is not more sought after than myself, yet I understand that you have found other ...
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When the white frock is laid aside, the bigger miss seats herself in public at a ball, expecting every moment to be chosen by some man for a p...
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship—only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming...
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The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
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[T]he most artful method [of courtship] would be this, to tell her that what she doth not possess is useless and contemptible, that weakness a...
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Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play
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