Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.

Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.

Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods can send

Wouldn't it be nice if roses could talk? I'm sure they could tell us such lovely things.

I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.

But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.