Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
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Nationality: English Type: Playwright Born: June 5, 1947 |
“I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.”
“I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.”