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Youth is wholly experimental.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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There is but one art, to omit.
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To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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The devil, depend upon it, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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A woman loves to be obeyed at first, although afterwards she finds her pleasure in obeying.
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Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?
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A woman can earn her pardon for a good year of disobedience by a single adroit submission.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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An appeal to his alarm is never a good plan to rid oneself of a spirited young man.
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Time passes quickly with lovers.
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In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for practical existence.
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Sight-seeing is the art of disappointment.
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The wine is bottled poetry.
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The old land is still the true love, the others are but pleasant infidelities.
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Sanity itself is a kind of convention.
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The imagination loves to trifle with what is not.
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Wherever a man is, there will be a lie.
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What is the Black Spot, Captain?" "That's a summons, mate."
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They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.
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Pieces of eight, pieces of eight, pieces of eight!
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Many's a long night I've dreamed of cheese -- toasted mostly.
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Them that die will be the lucky ones!
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The world is so full of a number of things,I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Children, you are very little,And your bones are very brittle.
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Each side, in these sort of civil broils, takes the name of honesty for its own.
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Am I no a bonny fighter?
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Who comes tonight? We ope the doors in vain
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There's just ae thing I cannae bear,An' that's my conscience.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Man is not truly one, but truly two.
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All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.
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Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is - nor yet so good a Christian.
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Hatred betrayed is hatred impotent.
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When we take our advantage unrelentingly, then we make war.
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There are double words for everything: the word that swells, the word that belittles.
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Bright is the ring of wordsWhen the right man rings them.
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God, if this were enough,That I see things bare to the buff.
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Be it granted me to behold you again in dying,Hills of home!
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