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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do whine, For the next as a pearl in the world they do shine, For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve, For the next matrons or drudges they serve, For the next doth crave a staff for a stay, For the next a bier to fetch them away.

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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

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The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.

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Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

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There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance with it.

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Hope is but the dream of those who wake.

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

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They talk most who have the least to say.

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The ends must justify the means.

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For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

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Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

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Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

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Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

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They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think.

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It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.

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To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit.

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And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

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