Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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