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People can begin to love when they choose, but they have no choice when it comes to ending love.
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Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.
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Although you can't make it as "the greatest person", you can still be the best person to your partner.
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He asked her to marry him, but she refused.
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I hurried to the house only to find it empty.
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Your composition was good except for the spelling.
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I may have seen that film before, but I can hardly remember it.
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I tried to reach you on the phone, but I was unable to get through.
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When I try to listen to music with media player there's an error and I can't play the file.
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He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.
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Confucius said: " Yu the Great's conduct, I could not point out any flaws. He consumes meager amount of food, while offering boastful riches to the Gods and ancestors; He always don the crudest attire, but wears lavish garments when worshipping; He resides in a small house, yet forges water ways and ditches with all his might. Figures like Yu the Great, I honestly cannot point out any reprehensible flaws."
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After three hours of discussion we got nowhere.
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He may be clever, but he is not very helpful.
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He saved the boy from drowning, but only at the cost of his own life.
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It is true Wendy grew up at the seaside, but she isn't a good swimmer.
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It is the 27th of June of 2013. The Blue Dreams are plural. The Blue Dreams are many. Interlingua is not the only one. For decades now, there have existed other Latinate conlangs, different projects. And in the future, some hope for others. But it has been the Green Dream, Esperanto, that has succeeded for more than a century. Reforms attempted upon Esperanto have met with failure over the decades because genuine Esperanto has an artistic balance with which one cannot tamper. Esperanto remains enduring. Amongst the Blues, my vote is still Interlingua. More people should give it a chance. Esperanto's accents give a charm to the language that perhaps boosted its survival over the years. There are substitute systems.
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I'll eat almost anything, but I'm very fickle when it comes to cheese.
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The shooting victim is alive, but just barely.
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When teaching a student, do not enlighten him until he wishes to understand what he could not. Do not inspire him until he wishes to express but could not. When teaching him one side of a solution, if he could not discover the other three sides, then do not teach him again.
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In our time, there were many students who passed the graduation exam without studying.
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This is not fair. She can go but I can't go.
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He was so healthy up to the minute of his sudden death. You really never know what might happen next.
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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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The fly running on the mirror doesn't worry about its reflection on the points of its legs from which it sits and runs; but on the contrary, it sees on the smooth surface a quantity of very small things which interest it and which we confuse with dust and grime.
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There are only five minutes left till the train leaves and she hasn't appeared.
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A man chooses; a slave obeys.
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Worrying doesn't take away tomorrow's concerns, but it does take away today's power.
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No women like to wear a dress that another discarded. With men, they're not so choosy.
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