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You say to me - wards your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long.

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Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying. And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.

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Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting-stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow, Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.

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What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.

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He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.

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You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new.

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Be as radical as reality.

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

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A lie told often enough becomes truth.

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Fascism is capitalism in decay.

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

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The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

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Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

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It's not why I'm in the business. ... It's not something I relish. ... I do it because it obviously is part of the whole process. It has to be done at some level to support the business.

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Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

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Towery city and branching between towers; Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmed, lark-charmed, rook-racked, river-rounded.

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I caught this morning morning's minion, kingdom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn falcon.

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What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

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People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not.

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