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| I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something that shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies. |
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| I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read |
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| In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues. |
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| In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America. |
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| In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man. |
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| In yon strait path a thousand May well be stopped by three |
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| Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical. |
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| Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. |
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| More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning |
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| Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. |
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| Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. |
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| Now who will stand on either hand / And keep the bridge with me? |
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| Obadiah Bind - their - kings - in - chains - and -their - nobles - with - links - of - iron. |
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| Oh Tiber! father Tiber! / To whom the Romans pray, / A Roman's life, a Roman's arms, / Take thou in charge this day! |
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| Oh, wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north, / With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red? / And wherefore doth your rout send forth a joyous shout? / And whence be the grapes of the wine-press which ye tread? |
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| One of us two, Herminius, / Shall never more go home. / I will lay on for Tusculum, / And lay thou on for Rome! |
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| Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. |
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| She [the Roman Church] thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. |
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| The business of everybody is the business of nobody. |
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| The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state. |
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