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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

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No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.

The Roundheads (1682)

Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.

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