"That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane"
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"...And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty."
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"I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker."
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"Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried."
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"But stories somehow lengthen when begun."
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"Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it."
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"A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned."
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"I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail."
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"If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men."
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"The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice."
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"Critics are already made."
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"If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom."
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"It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose virtues have been those of peace, and their vices those of compulsion. But whatever may have been their destiny and it has been bitter whatever it may be in future, their country must ever be one of the most interesting on the globe."
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"Prolonged endurance tames the bold."
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"Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe."
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"Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world."
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"Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them."
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"Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp."
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"That low vice, curiosity!"
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"What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry."
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