"There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair."
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"Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present."
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"There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself."
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"Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom."
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"Freedom exists only with power."
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"It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases."
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"What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul."
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"A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence."
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"Man is an imitative creature."
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"As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe."
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"Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart."
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"Time flies on restless pinions - constant never."
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"Truth lives on in the midst of deception."
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"Modest humility is beauty's crown."
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"I follow my heart, for I can trust it."
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"Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair."
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"If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity."
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"To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine."
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"Power is the most persuasive rhetoric."
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"Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes."
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