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

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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

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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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Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die.

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The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

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Consider, that no jewel upon earth is comparable to a woman of virtue and honor; and, that the honor of the sex consists in the fair characters they maintain.

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The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.

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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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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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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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