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In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

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Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

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He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

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

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This is the age of oddities let loose.

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Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.

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It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

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The busy have no time for tears.

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Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.

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Come what may, I have been blest.

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

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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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Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!

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Socrates said, our only knowledge was "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present. Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only "like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth."

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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.

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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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Liberty - eternal spirit of the chainless mind

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Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.

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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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