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For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.

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Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

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When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

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Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

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That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

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...And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.

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To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.

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The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty. This proves his heroism, but no more does away with man's sin than a school boy's volunteering to be flogged for another would exculpate a dunce from negligence.

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Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

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My native land, good night!

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Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

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Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.

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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

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Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.

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He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

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My beautiful, my own My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face! Thy very winds feel native to my veins, And cool them into calmness!

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This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

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I loved my country, and I hated him.

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Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer

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What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life--the demon Thought.

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