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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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I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator's workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.

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Gin a body meet a body Coming thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body— Need a body cry?

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But little Mouse, you are not alone, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes of mice and men Go often askew, And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy! Still you are blest, compared with me!

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Life is but a day at most.

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John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy.

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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love's the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.

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Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.

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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.

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

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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - We had ne'er been broken hearted

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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.

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Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.

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Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.

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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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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.

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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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Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, An' fill it in a silver tassie.

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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

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