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“I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.”
“I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.”
“For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.”
“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”
“Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.”
“This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.”
“Fame is the thirst of youth.”
“Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.”
“I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?”
“A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.”
“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
“Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.”
“Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.”
“The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.”
“To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.”
“Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.”
“'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.”
“The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.”
“Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.”
“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”