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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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But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

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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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Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.

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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

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

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And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter.

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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

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

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It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?

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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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Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears.

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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

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I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one.

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I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.

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For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

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