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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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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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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
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For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
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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 would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
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Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.
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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
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Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.
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Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.
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The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
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There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?
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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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Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
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Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
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Category: Literature Quotes
Occupation: Poet
Date of Birth: January 22, 1788
Date of Death: April 19, 1824
Nationality: Scottish





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