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| Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. | | Beauty | |
| Now is the time for drinking, now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour. | | Uncategorized | |
| Often the truth spoken with a smile will penetrate the mind and reach the heart; the lesson strikes home without wounding because of the wit in the saying | | Uncategorized | |
| Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. | | Uncategorized | |
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| One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. | | Uncategorized | |
| One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. | | Uncategorized | |
| Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things. | | Uncategorized | |
| Painters and poets, you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others. | | Uncategorized | |
| Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces. | | Death and dying | |
| Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king. | | Uncategorized | |
| Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings. | | Death and dying | |
| Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. | | Death and dying | |
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| Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance | | Poetry | |
