“This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.”
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“This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.”
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“Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on the number, but the choice of friends.”
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“A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all pains, the greatest pain it is to love, but love in vain.”
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“Hope! of all ills that men endure The only cheap and universal cure.”
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“Hope! Of all the ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.”
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“Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.”
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“But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.”
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“A mighty pain to love it is, And 't is a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.”
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“Life is an incurable disease.”
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“Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.”
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