The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
LORD BYRONThe fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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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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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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