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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

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I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.

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Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

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It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.

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Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister but change His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation.

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The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.

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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

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Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.

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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.

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My native land, good night!

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Land of lost gods and godlike men.

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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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Eternity forbids thee to forget.

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And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and a'so with good sense-a thing in footing indispensable: he danced without theatrical pretence, not like a ballet-master in the van of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.

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The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

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But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

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With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms.

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How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.

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Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.

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