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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.

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Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.

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after making love, quiet, touching along the length of our bodies, familiar touch of the long-married,

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Funny how the new things are the old things.

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And I'd like to roll to Rio / Some day before I'm old!

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No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves ââ?¬â?? but what the teachers are themselves.

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An' for all 'is dirty 'ide / 'E was white, clear white inside / When 'e went to tend the wounded under fire.

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All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.

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Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels fastest who travels alone.

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Every woman knows all about everything.

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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.

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As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place....

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The sin they do two by two they must pay for one by one.

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Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

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