* "With all his pompous soberness, the worldly man is fundamentally frivolous; with all his maxims and cant estimations he is radically inane." — The Life of Reason
* "If I say that I have thought as many affectionate thoughts to you, while knitting it, as it contains stitches, I fancy I speak nothing but truth and soberness--for I love you now with the love I have returned on my heart from Abby, who no longer is in want of earthly friends." — The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
* "I speak the words of truth and soberness--very sad soberness, too!" — At Last
* "He could not doubt her love of him; and although chafing at the idea that she swayed him absurdly--beyond the credible in his world of wag-tongues--he resumed his natural soberness, as a garment, not very uneasily fitting: whence it ensued--for so are we influenced by the garb we put on us--that his manly sentiment of revolt in being condemned to play second, was repressed by the refreshment breathed on him from her lofty character, the pure jewel proffered to his, inward ownership Adieu for the night,' he said, and she smiled." — Diana of the Crossways — Complete


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Ova recenica mi je djelovala nekako najslicnija onome sto se trazi pa sam se odlucila za ovu referencu, nadam se da je pomoglo, a slazem se da je zanimljivo...

* "I speak the words of truth and soberness--very sad soberness, too!" — At Last