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Nay, rather,Plant divine, of rarest virtue;Blisters on the tongue would hurt you.
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Some cry up Haydn, some Mozart,Just as the whim bites. For my part,I do not care a farthing candleFor either of them, nor for Handel.
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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For I hate, yet love thee, so,That, whichever thing I show,The plain truth will seem to beA constrained hyperbole,And the passion to proceedMore from a mistress than a weed.
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We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
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The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
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A poor relation-is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
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Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
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Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
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Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
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The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
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Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
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What is reading, but silent conversation.
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I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
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For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.
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Sunday itself-that unfortunate failure of a holyday as it too often proved, what with my sense of its fugitiveness, and over-care to get the greatest quantity of pleasure out of it …
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The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
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Far transcend my weak invention.’Tis a simple Christian child,Missionary young and mild,From her store of script’ral knowledge (Bible-taught without a college) Which by reading she could gather, Teaches him to say Our Father To the common Parent, who Colour not respects nor hue. White and Black in him have part, Who looks not to the skin, but heart.
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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
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Things in books' clothing.