"For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May."
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"She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above."
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"It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are."
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"Love is a believing creature."
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"Everything changes, nothing is lost."
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"Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable."
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"Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature."
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"To give requires good sense."
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"The burden becomes light that is shared by love."
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"Bear patiently with a rival."
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"Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace."
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"Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack."
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"Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy."
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"The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver."
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"All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins."
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"There is no excellency without difficulty."
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"The workmanship was better than the subject matter."
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"A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands."
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"We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion."
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"Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear."
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