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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

Robert Burns

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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Discrimination Doubt Grave Laughter Myself Time
Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Disappointment One Liner Worst
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Person Powerful Rich
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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Admire Life Love Morning Nature Night Sun
O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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Fools Freedom Ourselves Power
Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Blessing Glory King Life Victory
But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Forever Love See
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Care Control Root Wisdom
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Brave Dare Fear Honesty
Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
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Blessing Friendship God Goodness Love Poetry Time
The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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Art Burn Silver
Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Liberty Lying Paint Poet
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
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Character Complaint Coward Endurance Myself Possession
When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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Frame Greatness Human Man Mindset Nature Planning Work
Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Human Mourning Silver
If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Best Himself Live World

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