"So much alarmed that she is quite alarming"
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"Eat, drink and love...the rest is not worth a nickel"
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"What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!"
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"Tyranny is for the worst of treasons."
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"That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech."
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"Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim."
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"As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene."
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"To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all."
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"The law of heaven and earth is life for life."
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"This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction."
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"Life is too short for chess."
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"When people say, "I've told you fifty times," They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," They make you dread that they'll recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, but then, no doubt, it equally as true is, a good deal may be bought for fifty Louis."
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"I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over."
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"Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part?"
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"The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed."
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"I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited."
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"Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!"
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"Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider."
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"The sky is changed,-and such a change! O night And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder."
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"The 'good old times' - all times when old are good."
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