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In her first passion woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.


In solitude, where we are least alone.


All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.


And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.


But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.


For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.


Friendship is Love without his wings!


If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing - I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.


In her first passion woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.


Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.


Nothing can confound A wise man more than laughter from a dunce.


Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.


The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself.