Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

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A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

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We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

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No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.

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