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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

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living's at best a gamble / so fuck it - fol-de-rol

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But you you go ahead, go on, go on back down...

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To strengthen whilst one stands.

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Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

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How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be 'American' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

more quotes from Edith Wharton

How else could I write a love poem to you than standing in a fish with my buckets tied?

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I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

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In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

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"Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever."

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But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.

more quotes from Charles Baudelaire

Everything for me becomes allegory.

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There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

more quotes from Joseph Addison

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.

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