The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
LORD BYRONThere 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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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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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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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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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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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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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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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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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.
LORD BYRON