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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

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What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

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The lack of money is the root of all evil.

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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

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Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

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Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.

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Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!

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It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.

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True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.

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Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

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I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.

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The Spring I seek is in a new face only.

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Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

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In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

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Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

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So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

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Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.

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We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.

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But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.

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