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Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
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People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
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