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| I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself | | Uncategorized | |
| I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains. | | Uncategorized | |
| I die, - but first I have possessed, / And come what may, I have been blessed. | | Uncategorized | |
| I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual. | | Uncategorized | |
| I do not believe in revealed religion - I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in this life, without speculating on another | | Religion | |
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| I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -- besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves. | | Fortune | |
| I have always laid it down as a maxim /and found it justified by experience /that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex /but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all. | | Love | |
| I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world /not much remembered when the ball is over. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week | | Love; Money | |
| I have met with most poetry on trunks; so that I am pat to consider the trunk-maker as the sexton of authorship | | Uncategorized | |
| I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether | | Politics | |
| I have not loved the world, nor the world me; / I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed / To its idolatries a patient knee, / Nor coined my cheek to smiles, nor cried aloud / In worship of an echo. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust. | | Uncategorized | |
| I know that two and two make four -- and should be glad to prove it too if I could -- though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure. | | Uncategorized | |
| I like a woman to talk or I am left with the suspicion that she is thinking. | | Uncategorized | |
