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There is no sinner like a young saint.
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I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.
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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
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Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
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Variety is the soul of pleasure.
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
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Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
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Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am resolved to follow where you lead.
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That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
Last Update: 18 January 2022
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