"Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen."

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"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?"

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"I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions."

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"Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it."

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"Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment."

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"Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down."

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"All farewells should be sudden, when forever."

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