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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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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

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Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

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Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!

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Who then will explain the explanation?

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I learned to love despair.

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I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.

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He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.

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In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

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Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;... Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!

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I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South

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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.

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Good but rarely came from good advice.

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They never fail who die in a great cause.

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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.

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Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

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Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

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But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

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Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.

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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 can imagine.

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