God is Love -- I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

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The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

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There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

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Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Samuel Butler in The Way of All Flesh
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For truth is precious and divine Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

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Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

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