They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
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We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.Jean de la Bruyere
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
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We trust our secrets to our friends, But they escape from us in love.
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The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
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