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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
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Faith loves to lean on time's destroying arm,And age, like distance, lends a double charm.
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I have always considered my face a convenience rather than an ornament.
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Thou say'st an undisputed thing In such a solemn way.
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And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.
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And since, I never dare to writeAs funny as I can.
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When the last reader reads no more.
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The freeman casting with unpurchased handThe vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
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And when you stick on conversation's burrs,Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
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Thine eye was on the censer, And not the hand that bore it.
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O hearts that break and give no sign Save whitening lip and fading tresses!
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One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!
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Lean, hungry, savage anti-everythings.
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The brightest blades grow dim with rust, The fairest meadow white with snow.
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When lawyers take what they would giveAnd doctors give what they would take.
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You can hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer, to prove anything that you want to prove.
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Some of the sharpest men in argument are notoriously unsound in judgment.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used, till they are seasoned.
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The hat is the ultimum moriens of "respectability".
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Each woman virtually summons every man to show cause why he doth not love her.
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Talk about it as much as you like,--one's breeding shows itself nowhere more than in his religion.
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What a miserable thing it is to be poor.
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The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
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