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• We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
• We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
  -- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach...
• Be the first to say what is self-evident, and you are immortal. --M. Ebner-Eschenbach
• In youth, if we are lucky, we learn. In age, if we are wise, we understand. -- Ebner-Eschenbach
• This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)...
• That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way as us.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
• Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity. -- Ebner-Eschenbach
• If they ever give you a brief ... attack the medical evidence.
  Remember, the jury's full of rheumatism and arthritis and shocking gastric troubles....