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

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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
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
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right

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

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