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Indifference is the invincible giant of the world.

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Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.

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An easygoing husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

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An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

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It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.

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It takes a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.

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Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

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A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.

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Fame! It is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.

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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

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The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.

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Petty laws breed great crimes. Few rulers, big or little, remember that.

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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

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Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.

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It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.

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The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

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Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone

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The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.

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There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

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Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.

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I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

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Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.

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There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.

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Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

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Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.

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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

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What is it that love does to a woman? Without it, she only sleeps; with it, alone, she lives.

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Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

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Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.

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