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I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

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

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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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The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.

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Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.

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A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.

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Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never

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This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.

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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.

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O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

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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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Come what may, I have been blest.

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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 not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.

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Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow, Then sees your heart wreck'd, with an inward scoffing.

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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 mellow autumn came, and with it came The promised party, to enjoy its sweets. The corn is cut, the manor full of game; The pointer ranges, and the sportsman beats In russet jacket;--lynx-like is his aim; Full grows his bag, and wonderful his feats. An, nutbrown partridges! An, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.

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Let joy be unconfined.

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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions... think.

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I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and hatred of each other.

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