Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

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No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.

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Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains.

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

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Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.

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Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

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A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

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I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!

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