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/ page 1097 of 1205 /I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.
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Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.
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A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
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The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
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Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
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The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
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Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
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Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
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What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.
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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
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Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.
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The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.
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Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.
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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
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Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
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Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
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A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.
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