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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.

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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing

Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.

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