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when you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right...
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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes...
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the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise...
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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Aren't you missing a lot of fun? You know, one's young for such a little while."
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I'm beginning to think it's very hard to know what to believe in this world."
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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Things don't get any easier by putting them off.
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Women are always glad to listen when you discourse upon love...
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Passion doesn't count the cost. ... Passion is destructive.
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In art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.
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Religion is...a conspiracy of...priests to gain control over the people...
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The sad Don Quixote of a worthless purpose.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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ba691ed
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There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.
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What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.
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Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way.
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You bloody fool, you've killed the wrong man."
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit...
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up.
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You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
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