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The higher the step of advancement, the heavier is the fall.

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, which we are forced rather to obey than able to command.

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Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous...

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I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that uncommon generosity causes neglect rather than gratitude.

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Letters were first invented for consoling such solitary wretches as myself. Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I shall in some measure compensate this loss by the satisfaction I shall find in your writing.

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Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

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Ever tried putting a caramel candy in a cup of hot tea? It's excellent! Not only does it give a little different taste to the tea, but it takes the place of the sugar and cream which you ordinarily add.

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Tea seems to tenderize cheap cuts of beef. After cooking chuck, boiling beef and brisket (I even mixed rib eye, which is ever so cheap, and it's great) I have decided that the tannic acid in the tea is what tenderizes beef!

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Héloïse

Héloïse

Born: 1101

Died: May 23, 1164 (aged 63)

Bio: Héloïse was a French nun, writer, scholar, and abbess, best known for her love affair and correspondence with Peter Abélard.

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Abelard letters

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