The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.

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  All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

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  I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.

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  Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man, and often makes the most foolish clever.

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  We have just religion enough to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

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  Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

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  Love: a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

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