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“Manhood had come to him, both in character and demeanour, not as it comes to most young lads, an eagerly-desired and presumptuously-asserted claim, but as a rightful inheritance, to be received humbly, and worn simply and naturally.”

Men Growing Up Manhood Young Men

Book:John Halifax, Gentleman

Source: John Halifax, Gentleman

“I watched too, with that sort of lonely delight--the one shadow upon it being that it is so lonely--with which all one's life one is accustomed to watch beautiful and vanishing things.”

Beauty Sunset Aloneness

Book:An Unsentimental Journey Through Cornwall

Source: An Unsentimental Journey Through Cornwall

“It is one of my decided opinions that married people ought to have no one, be the tie ever so close and dear, living permanently with them, to break the sacred duality — no, let me say the unity of their home.”

Unity Married Life

Book:John Halifax, Gentleman

Source: John Halifax, Gentleman

“The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence—Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse or a boon.”

Father Son Curse Boon

Book:John Halifax, Gentleman

Source: John Halifax, Gentleman

“I have seen many a face that was more good-looking — never one that looked half so good.”

Description Humourous Good Looking

Book:John Halifax, Gentleman

Source: John Halifax, Gentleman

“I felt a weight on my chest; a sense of hot indignation which settled down into inconceivable melancholy.”

A Life For A Life

Author:Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

“Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”

Book:A Life for a Life

Source: A Life for a Life

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