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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.

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Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.

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

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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

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Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

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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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Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides; Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand: Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers wooing the caress, More dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties Give me a cigar!

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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.

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No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

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And those who saw, it did surprise, Such drops could fall from human eyes.

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So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.

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What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?

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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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And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.

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War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"

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But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be.

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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

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Good but rarely came from good advice.

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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

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