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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.

Mikhail Lermontov

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Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.
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Acknowledge Fact Friendship Himself Slave
Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
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Evil Experience Happiness Pleasure
In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.
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Eyes Laughter People Place Sorrow
An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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Beginning End Unusual
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
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Achievement Glory Happiness Ignorance Oneself People Success
I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
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Audience Born Failure Myself Success World
My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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Darkness Growth Love Oneself Soul
Women only love those that they don’t know.
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Love Unknown Woman
I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
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Learning Love Myself Ready Understand World
Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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Ideas Initial One Liner Passion Stage
Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
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Beginning Calm River Sea Water Way
O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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Belief Earth Power Yourself
Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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Carry Feeling Ideas Life Oneself Storm
Women love only those whom they do not know!
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Love Unknown Woman
We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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Excuse Practical Understand
In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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Eyes Myself People Sin

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