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To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.

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The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago.

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There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

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But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!

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I don't set up for being a cosmopolite, which to any mind signifies being polite to every country except your own.

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My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

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A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.

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Oh, God! that bread should be so dear! And flesh and blood so cheap!

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I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

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Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

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Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

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There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.

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Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.

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Never go to France - unless you know the lingo, if you do like me, you will repent by jingo.

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Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!

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I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

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A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

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It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies.

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I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.

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