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Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.

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It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

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Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.

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The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

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An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.

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Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

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Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

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With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

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Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

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To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.

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Feed the musician, and he's out of tune.

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Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.

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The game is never lost till won.

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In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.

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To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.

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