Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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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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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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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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Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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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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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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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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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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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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