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• Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
• Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. — Abigail Adams
• Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young. — Emile M. Cioran
• It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the… — Charles Baudelaire
• Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but… — Thomas Jefferson
• How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
• To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred… — Charles Perrault
• Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of… — Emile M. Cioran
• Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better. — Propertius
• Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it… — Jonathan Mayhew
• We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the… — Khalil Gibran

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