I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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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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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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The 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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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to gaming – to battle – to travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
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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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