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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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A man should diffuse joy, but, as much as he can, smother grief.
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Your heart is wounded with compassion to hear the mourning of friends, and, perhaps with anger, to hear the counterfeit condolings of pretenders.
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a man should, at the first approaches, favour their grief and express some approbation of their sorrow