Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
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But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.
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Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.
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It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.
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There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.
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There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
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She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.
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Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.
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In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
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It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.
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