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Gorgons and Hydras, and Chimaeras--dire stories of Celaeno and the Harpies--may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition--but they were there before. They are transcripts, types--the archetypes are in us, and eternal. How else should the recital of that which we know in a waking sense to be false come to affect us at all? Is it that we naturally conceive terror from such objects, considered in their capacity of being able to inflic..
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The flouting infidel doth mock when Christians cry
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I have something more to do than to feel.
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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see a mountain in my life.
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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Gone beforeTo that unknown and silent shore.
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Any thing awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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Fanny Kelly's divine plain face.
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I came home for ever!
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When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed, 'Damn the age; I will write for Antiquity!'
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He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
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Not if I know myself at all.
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And half had staggered that stout Stagirite.
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He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.
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Neat, not gaudy.
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Martin, if dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!
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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
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For thy sake, tobacco, IWould do anything but die.
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Nay, rather,Blisters on the tongue would hurt you.
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Thou through such a mist dost show us,That our best friends do not know us.
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The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
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A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigor of the game.
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I have no ear.
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Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune.
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Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
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It is good to love the unknown.
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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Presents, I often say, endear absents.
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It argues an insensibility.
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A poor relation--is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
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Books think for me.
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Things in books' clothing.
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Books which are no books.
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A pun is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
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The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture.
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