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Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

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Cynics are made, not born.

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Life is mostly froth and bubble, two things stand like stone, iindness in another's trouble, courage in your own.

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What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

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The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

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gone before To that unknown and silent shore,

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Lawers, I suppose, were children once.

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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

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The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

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I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days,...

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My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

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The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

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Lawyers I suppose were children once.

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Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life.

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The vices of some men are magnificent.

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I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

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