Love, betrayal, subterfuge, and success in a time of aristocracy, arranged marriage, and external control over who marries whom.
“Expectation is the root of all heartache. ("Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises.")”
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48. Unlearning
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“Good without evil is like light with out darkness which in turn is like righteousness without hope.”
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“Now I see the mystery of your loneliness.”
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“Religious in mine error, I adore the sun, that looks upon his worshipper, but knows of him no more.”
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“Strange is it that our bloods,
Of color, weight, and heat, pour'd all together,
Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off
In differences so mighty.”
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“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues”
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“Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, it is ever lost. ’Tis too cold a companion: away with it!”
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