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The Noblest form of Affection

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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

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The heart was made to be broken.

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I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak ...more

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Who, being loved, is poor?

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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

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You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful, the meaning of S...more

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it is a marvel that those red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing.

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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

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A kiss may ruin a human life

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a wa...more

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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

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What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always ...more

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The curves of your lips rewrite history.

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Men always want to be a woman's first love, -women want to be a man's last romance.