Famous quotes containing the words true and/or victim:
“To love another ... is, to stand in a true relation to him, so that we give the best to, and receive the best from, him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The wonderful scope and variety of female loveliness, if too long suffered to sway us without decision, shall finally confound all power of selection. The confirmed bachelor is, in America, at least, quite as often the victim of a too profound appreciation of the infinite charmingness of woman, as made solitary for life by the legitimate empire of a cold and tasteless temperament.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
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