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To promise is to give, to hope is to enjoy.

— Jacques Delille

Promettre c'est donner, espérer c'est jouir.

Original text (French)

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I love to dream, but do not wish
To have a pin prick rouse me.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922)

Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Malheur at Pitié (1803)

He sees only night, and hears only silence.

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Fate gives us parents; choice gives us friends.

A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

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