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Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.

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Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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And besides, we lovers fear everything.
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Sometimes tears carry the same weight as words.
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.
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I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
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Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are.
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I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
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A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
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