There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.

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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

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Think not I am what I appear.

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They never fail who die in a great cause.

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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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To have joy, one must share it.

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You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of love. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all. Music is love in search of a word. There is pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.

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