"Heaven grant us patience with a man in love." — Joseph Rudyard Kipling

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage

Source: Emma (1815)

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things

Source: Walden (1854)

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with

Source: Following the Equator, ch. 48 (1897)

Love is the life out of which are fashioned all the natural feelings, every emotion of man.

Source: The Hope of the Gospel (1871)

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