"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet" — Platon

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future

Source: A Woman of No Importance (1893)

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage

Source: Emma (1815)

To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones

Source: Letter to James Welch (Apr. 7, 1799)

To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with

Source: Following the Equator, ch. 48 (1897)

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Source: What I Believe (1925)

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