"Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the……" — William John Locke
"Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence."
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30 Quotes by William John Locke
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- I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
- Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making…
- I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and…
- Art is long, and the talk about it is even longer.
- Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a…
- The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.
- Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.
- What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.
- Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the…
- Women are women and can't help themselves.
- As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind…
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