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Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.

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Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.

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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

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Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The words of 'Auld Lang Syne' are good, but the music is an old air, the rudiments of the modern tune of that name. ... Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ... Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure thrill the deepest notes of woe. ... Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

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Humid seal of soft affections, Tend'rest pledge of future bliss, Dearest tie of young connections, Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.

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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.

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His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

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In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

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See Social-life and Glee sit down, All joyous and unthinking, Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown Debauchery and Drinking

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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.

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Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.

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[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect.

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Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best!

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My heart 's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart 's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.

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Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining.

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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

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I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care for nae-body.

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Suspense is worse than disappointment.

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On Earth, Discord! A gloomy Heaven above, opening her jealous gates to the nineteen thousandth part of the tithe of mankind! And below, an inescapable & inexorable Hell, expanding its leviathan jaws for the vast residue of Mortals!

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