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Brief author info: Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821) Born Salusbury; also known as Mrs. Thrale. English writer, intimate of Samuel Johnson.

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

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Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence and virtue and honest fondness one loves people.

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Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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A woman we love rarely satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman whom we do not love.

- Marcel Proust

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The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

- Maya Angelou

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Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

- William James

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

- Oscar Wilde

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