I will not deny that my heart ...

I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So strong were these impulses that I indulged myself by thinking that if I could not have him whom I admired whom I will admit it now when I would not before I loved then I would never want another. However those are sentiments best saved for one of Lily's romances. The heart is a far more practical thing and in its life is happily capable of more than a single attachment.
 Galen Beckett

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One is always willfully absurd.... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot.
 Galen Beckett