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He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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Music is the pathway to the heart.

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Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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I hate women because they always know where things are.

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Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

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For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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