Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
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Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
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