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It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.

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Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?
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It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
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Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
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Desire Hope
It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.
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A woman without paint is like food without salt.
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
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Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
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There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
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It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.
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In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
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The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.
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When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
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It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.

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