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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.
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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
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Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
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Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
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This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
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The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
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Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
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