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"Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object."
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"You are a perfect woman, a magical blend of beauty, intelligence, and spirit. Without you, my life is nothing."

"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration."

"I haven't seen angels, but I am sure they are not as beautiful as you are."

"She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra."

"What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others."

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"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

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"The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding."

"He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young."

"That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?"

"The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves."

"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
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