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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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Send me no more reviews of any kind. I will read no more of evil or good in that line. Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years .

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He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.

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I came to realize clearly that the mind is no other than the Mountain and the Rivers and the great wide Earth, the Sun and the Moon and the Sky”.

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I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have found them not, that there may be words which are things, hopes which will not deceive, and virtues which are merciful, or weave snares for the failing: I would also deem o'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve; that two, or one, are almost what they seem, that goodness is no name, and happiness no dream.

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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

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But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,-- Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.

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For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only, and being far/ From this my subject, has no business here;/ We know too, they are very fond of war,/ A pleasure - like all pleasures - rather dear;/ So were the Cretans - from which I infer/ That beef and battle both were owing her

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I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.

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Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.

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A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.

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

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Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?

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Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

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Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.

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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

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I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.

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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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A sleep without dreams, after a rough day of toil, is what we covet most; and yet How clay shrinks back from more quiescent clay! The very Suicide that pays his debt at once without installments (an old way of paying debts, which creditors regret) Lets out impatiently his rushing breath, less from disgust of life than dread of death.

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I awoke one day to find myself famous.

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