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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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Despair and Genius are too oft connected

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The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

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Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.

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We of the craft are all crazy.

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Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

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So much alarmed that she is quite alarming

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Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

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In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears

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Fill high the cup with Samian wine!

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There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

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As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene.

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To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

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There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!

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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain

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All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

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The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before; The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them-She was the Universe.

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