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Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inh...
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom...
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the ...
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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? ...
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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave not...
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which...
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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let...
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There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
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Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each...
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And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married ...
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It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year im...
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The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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Absence - that common cure of love.
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Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
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And when we think we lead, we are most led.
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Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
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He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all th...
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I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
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Let us not unman each other; part at once; all farewells should be sudden, when forever
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I wish he would explain his explanation
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All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Anon -Lord Byron.
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Fame is the thirst of youth.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a ti...
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Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
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Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah gi...
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I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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I love not man the less, but Nature more.
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Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not t...
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, st...
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society wher...
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A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only ...
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at...
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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervant...
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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
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The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of ...
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The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
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Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his...
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated wi...
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints t...
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Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.
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It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved ...
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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
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Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
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Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married ...
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Society is now one polished horde, --- Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
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Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
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What men call gallantry and gods adultery Is much more common where the climate's sultry.
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Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
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Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler
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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
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Oh! too convincing - dangerously dear - In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
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[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
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How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these hor...
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For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pau...
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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Goodnight
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With just enough of learning to misquote.
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All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
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I'll publish right or wrong. Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slav...
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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As to 'Don Juan,' confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but...
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'Tis pity wine should be so deleterious, for tea and coffee leave us much more serious
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I am the very slave of circumstance / And impulse - borne away with every breath!
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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
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Sweet is revenge - especially to women.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer
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Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, trave...
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Dreading that climax of all human ills, / The inflammation of his weekly bills.
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Still must I hear? - shall hoarse Fitzgerald bawl / His creaking couplets in a tavern hall, / And I ...
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There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fev...
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A tigress robb'd of young, a lioness, Or any interesting beast of prey, Are similes at hand for the ...
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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
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Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in cour...
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
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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,...
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Let simple Wordsworth chime his childish verse, / And brother Coleridge lull the babe at nurse.
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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subj...
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I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and ...
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History is the devil's scripture.
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One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I ca...
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Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not / Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
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Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that porten...
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A man must serve his time to every trade / Save censure - critics all are ready made. / Take hackney...
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It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pict...
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He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequen...
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He said / Little, but to the purpose.
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The tourture we desire is the greatest of all.
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The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind...
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Sublime tobacco! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest
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And wrinkles (the damned democrats) won't flatter
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The drying up a single tear has more - Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore
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Dear Doctor, I have read your play, / Which is a good one in its way, - / Purges the eyes and moves ...
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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
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The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to pu...
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The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and ...
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I thought it would appear / That there had been a lady in the case.
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire -- in the midst of myriads of...
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The memory of joy is no longer joy; the memory of pain is pain still.
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over the...
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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dar...
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage
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I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and ...
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There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if ...
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Truth is always strange
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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do...
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The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! / Where burning Sappho loved and sung, / Where grew the ar...
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Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which make...
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company
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In general I do not draw well with literary men / not that I dislike them but I never know what to s...
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A man must serve his time to every trade: Save Censure- Critics all are ready made
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The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars o...
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I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloyin...
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I die, - but first I have possessed, / And come what may, I have been blessed.
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Better to err with Pope, than shine with Pye.
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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it o...
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What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
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Romances paint at full length people's wooings, but only give a bust of marriages: but no one cares ...
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But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy w...
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The best of prophets of the future is the past
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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
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Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart. -Lord Byron.
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Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never
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Arm! Arm! it is - it is - the cannon's opening roar!
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Let these describe the indescribable.
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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at ...
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I like a woman to talk or I am left with the suspicion that she is thinking.
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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is - I r...
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I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
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With just enough of learning to misquote
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry ...
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When we two parted / In silence and tears,/ Half broken-hearted / To sever for years, / Pale grew th...
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Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
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The busy have no time for tears.
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We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness -- but the seal is not ye...
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What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality...
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Oh! there is an organ playing in the street - a waltz too! I must leave off to listen.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anyth...
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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there m...
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Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure
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There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
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The very best of vineyards is the cellar
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As soon / Seek roses in December - ice in June; / Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; / Believ...
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Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit c...
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That household virtue, most uncommon, / Of constancy to a bad, ugly woman.
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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love
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I have always laid it down as a maxim /and found it justified by experience /that a man and a woman ...
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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life -- and if Virtue is not its own r...
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I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
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In short, he was a perfect cavalier, / And to his very valet seemed a hero.
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Half dust, half deity, unfit alike to sink or soar
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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and de...
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The arena swims around him - he is gone,/ Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who w...
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I stood / Among them, but not of them; in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep: and yet a third of Life is passed in sleep
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Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded that all the Apostles would have done as they did
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This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? ...
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; / A palace and a prison on each hand.
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Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is sorrow still
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Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage...
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The Cardinal is at his wit's end -- it is true that he had not far to go.

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