The things I do for love

A collection of my words against theirs

Cicero – Political Speeches (2010 Winter)
“Two things alone I long for: first, that when I die I may leave the Roman people free – the immortal gods could bestow on me no greater blessing: and second, that each person’s fate may reflect the way he has behaved towards his country.”

Gustav Flaubert – Madame Bovary (2010 Winter)
“A man, surely, should know everything, should excel at many different things, should initiate you into the intensities of passion, into the refinements of life, into all its mysteries?”

George Grossmith – The Diary of a Nobody (2010 Winter)
“Orthodox is a grandiloquent word implying sticking-in-the-mud.”

Franz Kafka – The Castle (2010 Autumn)
“Such a fear, though it might be justified, is no reason not even to try the venture.”

Adam Smith – Wealth of Nations (2010 Autumn)
“The increase of revenue and stock is the increase of national wealth.”

Arthur Conan Doyle – The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (2010 Autumn)
“It is nearly midnight, Watson, and I think we may make our way back to our humble abode.”

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