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The language of friendship is not words, but meanings.
- Henry David Thoreau

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
- Benjamin Disraeli

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.
- Mark Twain

I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.
- Albert Einstein

In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
- Benjamin Franklin

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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

What is it that love does to a woman? Without it, she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.

An easygoing husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier, that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.

Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.

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One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

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