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Reason is not what decides love.

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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
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
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way

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