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Fidelity
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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― Meditations
― Meditations
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...it is foreign to a man's nature to go on loving a person when he is told that he must and shall be that person's lover. There would be a much likelier chance of his doing it if he were told not to love. If the marriage ceremony consisted in an oath and signed contract between the parties to cease loving from that day forward, in consideration of personal possession being given, and to avoid each other's society as much as possible in public, there would be more loving couples than there are n
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― Jude the Obscure
― Jude the Obscure
