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The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

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I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially when life is rather new.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

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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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I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania.

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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

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I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.

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Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

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It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose virtues have been those of peace, and their vices those of compulsion. But whatever may have been their destiny and it has been bitter whatever it may be in future, their country must ever be one of the most interesting on the globe.

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Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!

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Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.

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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

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Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

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Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

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He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.

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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

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For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

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