"A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned."
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"Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrecked."
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"Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe."
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"thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce."
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"There are bitter weeds in England."
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"I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded."
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"Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest."
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"Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not better."
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"Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse"
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"In your mid-30s, it’s time to start playing guys of compromise. And as you get older, men of bitter compromise."
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"If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end."
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"Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter."
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"To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still."
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"A bitter drug oft brings relief."
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"Men tend to remember the best things about the women they've loved and to forget the worst, which is why so many men make the same mistakes with women again and again. Women tend to forget the best things about the men they've loved and to remember the worst, which is why so many women become bitter about men."
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"I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach."
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"Who hath bitter in his mouth, spits not all sweet."
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"Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that."
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"You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the bedrooms of the poor. And there's a mighty Judgement coming but I may be wrong."
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"Luck, you see, brings bitter friends."
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