But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves alone. We all take on Napoleon's features, And millions of our fellow creatures Are nothing more to us than tools... Since feelings are for freaks and fools. Eugene, of course, had keen perceptions And on the whole despised mankind, Yet wasn't, like so many, blind; And since each rule permits exceptions, He did respect a noble few, And, cold himself, gave warmth its due.

Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.

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