A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
- Lord Byron Quote

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
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Absence - that common cure of love.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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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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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
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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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.
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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
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He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
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Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
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I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
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I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
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I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
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I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
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I love not man the less, but Nature more.
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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
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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 don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
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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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Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.
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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
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Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.
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Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
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Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.
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The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
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This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
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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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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
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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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When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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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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Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
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