There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
I do hope you have some money. I'm getting tired of hitting people.
A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females...and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.
I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)