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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.

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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
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
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
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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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves

The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.

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