"Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live."
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"Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety."
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"One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books."
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"The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments"
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"Between lovers, betrayal is always the worst sin."
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"I 've been married so much in my life that I never really had lovers, so it's been a fun time. Hopefully the men are enjoying it as well."
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"Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free."
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"for never yet Has lover lived, but longed to wive Like them that are no more alive."
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"The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse."
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"The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor well, Though no distress be near him but his own Unmanageable thoughts."
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"No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt."
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"The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever."
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"Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of walking unembraced."
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"I was always a lover of soft-winged things."
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"We expect a great man to be a good reader."
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"Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book."
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"The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection."
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"Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists."
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"It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge."
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"There comes a time, in the history of Nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you? Will you lovers of liberty, will you rise to the occasion?"
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