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Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.
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The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
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I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
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When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
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I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age,
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I am a courtier grave and serious Who is about to kiss your hand: Try to combine a pose imperious With a demeanour nobly bland.
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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.
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Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes!
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Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?
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When a felon s not engaged in his employment, Or maturing his felonious little plans, His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest mans.
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The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law.
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Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
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And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist--
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In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
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When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.
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I am the very model of a modern major general
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Let the punishment fit the crime.
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I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.
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I know everybody's income and what everybody earns,
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The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.
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Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your
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I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.
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