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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

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Variety is the soul of pleasure.

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She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.

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Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

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The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.

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Autumn is the bite of the harvest apple.

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Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.

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Silence is more musical than any song.

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

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I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.

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