Sidney Webb

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    With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb’st the skies;
    How silently, and with how wan a face.
    —Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

    To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion—far less by the white fire of love.
    —Mary Webb (1881–1927)