What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
LORD BYRONThe busy have no time for tears.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
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