To assume is to presume.
I will do what I can.
You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.
And what does she mean by love, anyway? People use that word and mean all sorts of things by it.
I have striven never to betray myself.
No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night.
There are some people who like nothing better than a good, regular quarrel.
I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting.
I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal.
Keats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking notice of him just when he would have to leave it.
Curious creatures we mortals are-how we do not know what we want, or how to get it if we do.
Life is shockingly short to trouble about certain things.