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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.

Alexandre Dumas

Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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Blood Heart Hide Moral Painful Wound
We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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Accompany Allow Choke Excessive Expectation Love
Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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Believe Deep Misery Misfortune
Wait and hope!
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Hope Patience Wait
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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Difficult Lying Value
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Fools Learning Oneself
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Love Passion Selfish
So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Dreams Imagination Ourselves Wings
There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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Care Friendship Heard Secret
Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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Drama Life Myself Reality
I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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Laughter Myself Please Privilege
You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Charming Doubt Yourself
So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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Carry Chain heavy Need
So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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Final Himself Smile Wisdom
Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? – why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections – an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places – which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
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Breathe Chain Connection Place Present Sadness Time
I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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Bored Food Hungry Myself

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