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1. A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
2. Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
3. Disguise our bondage as we will, ’Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
4. All that’s bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that’s sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
5. A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
6. It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
7. Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
8. While mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
9. Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
10. Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
11. The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
12. And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
13. Ask a woman’s advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you’re sure to be wise.
14. Came but for friendship, and took away love.
15. No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
16. Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
17. And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch’d by the thorns.
18. This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
19. Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
20. What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.