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If you want to be loved, be lovable.

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Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
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Courage Men Passion Wine
Nothing is stronger than habit.
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Habit One Liner Strong
I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
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Birthday Dust Grains Youth
What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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Live Love She Sleep Woman
In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.
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Count Hands Human Being Intelligence Strength
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Deed Human Nature Reward Value
I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.
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Chase Curiosity
Love will enter cloaked in friendship’s name.
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Cloak Enter Friendship Love Name One Liner
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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Anxiety Pleasure Pure
Sometimes tears carry the same weight as words.
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I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.
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Approve Desire Direction Follow Force Reason Strange Wrong
He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.
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Hopeless Life Love Wretch
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Return Time Waves
The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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Bright Burn Clean Lamp Wicked
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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