"There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres."
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"My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea."
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"Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure."
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"The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go."
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"'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it."
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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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"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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"So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice."
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"You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?"
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"Self praise is no praise at all."
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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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"The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this "craving void" which drives us to gaming - to battle - to travel - to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment."
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"Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."
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"Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see."
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"Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels."
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"Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore."
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"A little still she strove, and much repented, And whispering “I will ne'er consent”—consented."
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"I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania."
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"Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost."
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"Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship."
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