"The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce."
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"Blessings on him, who invented sleep."
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"The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece."
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"For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand."
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"Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them."
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"There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate."
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"By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom."
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"One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous."
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"Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune."
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"Be slow of tongue and quick of eye."
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"Every man is the son of his own works."
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"Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness."
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"A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead."
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"The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written."
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"He who gives early gives twice."
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"Faint heart ne'er won fair lady."
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"The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one."
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"One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are."
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"Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side."
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"For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome."
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