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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.

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And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.

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But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.

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The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.

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Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

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'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy that this did, I can't help thinking puberty assisted.

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Frienship is eros...without wings

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In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

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There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolish'd the right arm Of his own country.

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I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

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Hearts will break - yet brokenly, live on.

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There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

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For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.

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Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

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I learned to love despair.

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

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