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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Charity Known Money Yourself
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

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