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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

Thomas Hardy

Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
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Drama Experience Happiness Impression Leadership Learning Life Live Placement Subject
I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
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Death Goodness Illustration Moral Story Success
If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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Couple Love Marriage Relationship
Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
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Best Devotion Failure Greatness Kind Man Remember Selfish
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
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Herself Strength Strong Weakness Woman Worst
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Eyes Love Myself Relationship Yourself
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Love Lover
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness
Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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Bed Death Grave Live Teaching
Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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Distance Man See Woman
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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Believe Deal Goodness Reality Strange
Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Friendship Lucky One Liner
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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Evolution Fantasy
It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
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Humanity Imperfection Sweet Touch

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