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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

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The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation, And for the bass, the beast can only bellow; In fact, he had no singing education, An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow.

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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

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'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

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Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

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Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe -you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so - or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

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But - Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual, inform us truly, have they not hen-pecked you all?

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Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

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Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

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They never fail who die in a great cause.

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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

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The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

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John Adams lies here, of the parish of Southwell, a carrier who carried his can to his mouth well; he carried so much, and he carried so fast, he could carry no more - so was carried at last; for the liquor he drank, being too much for one, he could not carry off - so he's now carri-on.

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The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind!

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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

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