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However glorious an action in itself it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
True love is like ghosts which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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