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How I should love that plain-heartedness you speak of, if you would use it; nothing is civil but that amongst friends.
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Each time you happen to me all over again.
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The love of protecting too often degenerates into downright tyranny.
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.
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None other than this long brown land lays such a hold on the affections. The rainbow hills, the tender bluish mists, the luminous radiance of the spring, have the lotus charm.
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Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest.
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Though slowly and with pain, the objects of the affections change, as the objects of thought do.
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Thus even love, which is the deification of persons, must become more impersonal every day.
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.