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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

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True love is like ghosts which everybody talks about and few have seen.

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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

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True love is like ghosts which many believe in, but few have seen.

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

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There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.

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No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

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In love we often doubt what we most believe.

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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

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One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

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We forgive so long as we love.