Hereby you may perceive, although my future Wife were as unsatiable and gluttonous in her Voluptuousness, and the Delights of Venery, as ever was the Empress Messalina, or yet the Marchioness in England; and I desire thee to give Credit to it, that I lack not for what is requisite to overlay the Stomach of her Lust, but have wherewith aboundingly to please her.

[True temperance] flows logically from a wish not only to avoid the death dealt by indulgence, but to possess aboundingly the joys of life.

1859, John Ruskin, letter to Charles Eliot Norton dated 10 December, 1859, in Letters of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904, Volume 1, p. 91,
I have your kind letter with Lowell’s—both quite aboundingly helpful to me.

1908, Henry James, letter to Edith Wharton dated 13 October, 1908, in Percy Lubbock (ed.), The Letters of Henry James, London: Macmillan, 1920, Volume 2, p. 108,
Believe meanwhile and always in the aboundingly tender friendship […] of yours more than ever, Henry James.

But why on earth should he take the chance of tying himself up for life to the victim of obsessions and depressions? Particularly when a girl like Amanda Craig, rich and aboundingly healthy, had an obvious crush on him?

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