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'A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know'

'Absence - that common cure of love.'

'Adversity is the first path to truth.'

'Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.'

'Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep'

'For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.'

'Friendship is Love without his wings'

'I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting'

'I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.'

'I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned'

'I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether'

'I love not man the less, but Nature more.'

'I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.'

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

'Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.'

'Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.'

'There is no instinct like that of the heart.'

'Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves'

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