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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Alexandre Dumas

In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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Dangerous Love Point Wasted Time Writing
For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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Choice Head Heart Ideas
Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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Heart Kind Myself
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
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Burn Fire Greatness Truth Water
Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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Effect Oppression Sorrow Strange Time
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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Difficult Person Position
There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
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Blow Heaven People Resignation Struggle Suffering Tears Willing
Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Adventure Fear Myself Seek
Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Defeat Myself Strong Woman
There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
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Body Forever Forget Remember See Sight Soul Way
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Love Passion Selfish
Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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Bitter Blind Hate Rage Risk Task
True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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Beautiful History Offspring Rape
No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
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Boredom Courage Desire Hungry Myself Sleep
You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Charming Doubt Yourself

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