The devil was the first democrat
LORD BYRONThe first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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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 dew of compassion is a tear.
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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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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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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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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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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