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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.
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I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.
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BecauseHe is all-powerful, must all-good, too, follow?I judge but by the fruits-and they are bitter-Which I must feed on for a fault not mine.
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He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes.
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Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.
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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
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Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.
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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
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Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere.
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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
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Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t'other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires,And decorate the verse herself inspires:This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,-Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.
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While Franklin's quiet memory climbs to heaven,Calming the lightning which he thence hath riven,Or drawing from the no less kindled earthFreedom and peace to that which boasts his birth;While Washington's a watchword, such as ne'erShall sink while there's an echo left to air.
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But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be.
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A light broke in upon my brain, -It was the carol of a bird;It ceased, and then it came again,The sweetest song ear ever heard.
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Farewell! if ever fondest prayerFor other's weal avail'd on high,Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky.
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Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?
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Hope withering fled, and Mercy sighed farewell!
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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
Lord Byron