“Oh! never should a woman's words be more
Than sighs which have found utterance.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(5th June 1825) Portraits I
The London Literary Gazette, 1825
“Is there anything in the world more graceless, more dishonouring, than to desire a woman whom you will never have?”
— George Orwell, book Burmese Days
Ch XX
Burmese Days (1934)
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