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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

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What a day-to-day affair life is.

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Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

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There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

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The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

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The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

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Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

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Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

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There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.

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We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

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Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

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A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

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