"'You are angry, Jupiter, so you are wrong .
he is not asleep or awake, but something between.
"Maybe they are not, who can tell; one year is not like another. But what mud!"
"But we ought to stand."
Why, is a man likely to interpret his sensations when he is flying head foremost from a belfry, or has just learned that he has won two hundred thousand?
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I maintain that to be engaged is very dreary, far more so than to be a husband or nothing at all. An engaged man is neither one thing nor the other, he has left one side of the river and not reached the other, he is not married and yet he can't be said to be a bachelor, but is in something not unlike the condition of the porter whom I have mentioned above
The presence of the beloved woman in one's bachelor quarters affects one like wine and music.
Fortunately for men, women in love are always blinded by their feelings and never know anything of life.