I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
LORD BYRONWhat 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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Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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The devil was the first democrat
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What an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
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I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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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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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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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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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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