All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

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He is most blessed who loves the most, the freest who is most enslaved by love,

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What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.

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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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The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.

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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

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Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?

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Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

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