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"Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love."

"Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions."

"It is a great joy to love and be loved."
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"For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint."

"If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!"

"Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously."

"Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it over again, to the best of my art and knowledge. Hearken now to my story, its why and its reason."

"Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved."

"But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth."

"There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them."

"The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority."
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