Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.
William Makepeace Thackerayit is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody
William Makepeace ThackerayThere is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.
William Makepeace Thackeray