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There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.

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Doctors have been exposed-you always will be exposed-to the attacks of those persons who consider their own undisciplined emotions more important than the world's most bitter agonies-the people who would limit and cripple and hamper research because they fear research may be accompanied by a little pain and suffering.

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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.

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I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!

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You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

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They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.

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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

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For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.

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As the dawn comes up like thunder.

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Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.

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Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.

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Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.

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'E's all'ot sand an' ginger when alive, An''e's generally shammin' when'e's dead.

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I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine.

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Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.

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Every woman knows all about everything.

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When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.

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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

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It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.

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