Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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