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

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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue

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

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