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This good had full as bad a Consequence: The Book thus put in every vulgar hand,...

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Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

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Repentance is but want of power to sin.

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The gates of Hell are open night and day Smooth the descent, and easy is the way But, to return, and view the cheerful skies In this, the task and mighty labor lies.

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Fortune befriends the bold.

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Beware the fury of the patient man.

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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

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She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.

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None are so busy as the fool and knave.

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Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal mind, what happens, let us bear, nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.

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Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

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I can nail my left palm to the left-hand cross-piece but...

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I have no understanding of motivations or politics.

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Without adequate money going into education, you can't reform it,

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People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

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It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.

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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

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A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

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