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Bravery never goes out of fashion.

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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

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Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

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It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

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Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

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I would rather make my name than inherit it.

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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

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Faults are beauties in a lover's eye.

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The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

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There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

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But time has set its maggot on their track.

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Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.

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Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.

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Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.

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