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So you must always remember
that time ends the beauty

— Mellin de Saint-Gelais

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Source: Oeuvres poétiques

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A friendship that can be ended
didn't ever start

No bird can ever fly
like a heart can rise so high

It's better to act and to regret
Than to regret not to have acted

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