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To bear is to conquer our fate.

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To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die.

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It may be strange—yet who would change Time's course to slower speeding,...

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Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

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Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.

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Lost is our freedom When we submit to women so: Why do we need 'em When, in their best, they work our woe?

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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

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No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.

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It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

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It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse, flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunks of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.

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If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

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I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.

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A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night and then as its mausoleum.

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His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.

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Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.

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I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

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He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.

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For thou perhaps at thy return May'st find thy Darling in an urn.

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And here the precious dust is layd; Whose purely temper'd Clay was made...

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