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“Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose—easily trimmed off when once plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy waters.”

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Donald Grant Mitchell libro Reveries of a Bachelor

Reveries of a Bachelor, or a Book of the Heart (1850), p. 78.

“But courage, and patience, and faith, and hope have their limit. Blessed be the man who escapes such trial as will determine limit!”

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Donald Grant Mitchell

“The attempt to better one's condition is always praiseworthy; but it is only base and ignoble to attempt to cover one's condition with an idle smack of something larger.”

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Donald Grant Mitchell

Fuente: My Farm of Edgewood (1863), P. 287

“I have no faith in cats: they are a cold-blooded race; they are the politicians among domestic animals; they care little who is master, or what are the over-turnings, so their pickings are secure; and what are their midnight caucuses but primary meetings?”

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Donald Grant Mitchell

Fuente: My Farm of Edgewood (1863), P. 49

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