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Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation!

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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

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But think no more of the letter. The feelings of the person who wrote, and the person who received it, are now so widely different from what they were...more

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Before the house-maid had lit the fire the next day, or the sun gained any power over the cold, gloomy morning in January, Marianne, only half dressed...more

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In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain of giving.