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How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.
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I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.
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I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. "God do this, God don't do that." I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity."
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Is is said that those who study the ways of ambition learn patience.
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But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.
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People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.
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And there he lay in his bed, a broken man, worn out by a way of life which had been thrust upon him because of the antics of a wayward pig.
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Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King." And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet."
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He embraced me before them all, and he cried: 'Let every man favor his own doctor. This Dr. Colet is the doctor for me....
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Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.
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What a good thing it is to have in this world one person of whom who need not cherish the smallest fear!
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She took his hand and kissed it fervently. "I can never thank you enough for all you have given me. You snatched me from the dark pit of despair, of horror, and you set me here in the sunshine."
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Trust Anne to turn a disadvantage into an asset!
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When More had said that a man who cannot restrain his passions is essentially cruel, he spoke the truth.
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Nature was more merciful than men, providing for those who suffered great pain such blessedness as fainting; but men were cruel and brought their victims out of faints that the pain might start again. (On being tortured/The Tower.)
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People often vented their rage on those who were the victims of their neglect because they were in truth blaming themselves.
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He was what men called a religious man, which in his case meant he was a superstitious man. There was never a man less Christian; there was never one who made a greater show of piety.
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his dearest wish was that he could have a quiet life free from his obligations.
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He had been so friendly, and he had shown clearly that he did not think me in the least stupid--or, if he did, he liked it.
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At four years of age children accept without surprise that which is daily paraded before their eyes
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What was the good of restrained laughter; it made a mockery of the entire practice of laughing.
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She doubted not that in time she would grow as indifferent as others to these matters; but there was a softness within her which made it difficult for her. She must conform. She must be like those who lived about her. But for the time being she would refuse to think of the cruel things which could happen to men and women, merely because they spoke too freely. She wanted to be happy; therefore she would not think of anything that might make ..
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Her fault had been in trying to keep it as tight as a mistress might. All a wife needed was a little more subtlety, and it had taken her two years of doubts and nightmares to realize this. Let him wander away from her, let him dally with others--it would but be to compare them with his incomparable queen.
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Un pais gana mas con un ano de paz que con diez de guerra.
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For fortune delights to strike down those who are too high and to raise those who are low; and if we do not anticipate trouble, should it come, we shall face it with greater fortitude.
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think the Princess should read the New Testament both night and morning, and also certain selected portions of the Old Testament. She must become fully conversant with the gospels. She should, I believe also study Plutarch's Enchiridion, Seneca's Maxims, and of course Plato and Cicero." He glanced at his friend. "I suggest that Sir Thomas More's Utopia would provide good reading."
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his lips. "I fear, Mama, that I am not. But I am innocent in this case."
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Yet a simple ceremony in an English church, with no jewels, no brilliant company, no crown, could have made her the happiest woman in the world, providing the right man had shared that ceremony with her.
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Of course he won my heart. Many children did. I often thought that I should have liked children of my own if it were not for the undignified manner of getting them.
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Only by judging the Borgias against their own times can they arouse our sympathy, and only if they arouse our sympathy can they be understood. Below
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I no longer fight, I accept.
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all greatness must first take its shape in dreams.
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In Spain to share a pleasure is a good thing because in sharing what is good one gives something worth having. To share one's sorrow is to beg that one's burden shall be partly carried by another. Spaniards are too proud to ask favors." The"
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To love was the greatest adventure life had to offer; but to love was to suffer.
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Vale la pena luchar por la libertad; vale la pena pagar un alto precio por ella, porque morir por la libertad es dejar esta vida en un derroche de gloria que destruye nuestras debilidades del pasado y nos vuelve uno con los heroes
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sisters and brothers should never quarrel; they must always stand together against the rest of the world if need be.
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before the
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