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"Frances, you could read and study -- two things you like so well."
"Monsieur, I could not. I like a contemplative life, but I like an active life better. I must act in some way, and act with you. I have taken notice, monsieur, that people who are only in each other's company for amusement never like each other so well, or esteem each other so highly, as those who work together, and perhaps suffer together."

Servility creates despotism

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.