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• A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for…
• Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine…
• I see but one rule: to be clear.
• A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
• A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the…
• The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live…
• A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.
• Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.
• The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it…
• There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
• A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
• A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

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