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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
However rare true love may be it is less so than true friendship.
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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