"Women see through Claude Lorraines."
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"Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all."
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"As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions."
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"Moderation in all things, especially moderation."
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"Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song."
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"We lie in the lap of immense intelligence."
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"Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat."
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"Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow."
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"Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can."
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"Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear."
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"The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it."
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"Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions."
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"The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!"
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"I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest."
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"They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it."
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"For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem."
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"Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses yet it does not surprise the moral sentiment that was older and awaited expectant these larger insights."
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"Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine."
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"I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion; one, fame, the other, desert; one, feats, the other, humility; one, lucre, the other, love; one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind."
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"Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit."
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