"Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance."
-Thomas Moore
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"Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.“
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"And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns."
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"A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady."
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"True change takes place in the imagination."
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"Came but for friendship, and took away love."
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"Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves."
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"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
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