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Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

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This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

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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 am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

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He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

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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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Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

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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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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

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Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

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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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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

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The best prophet of the future is the past.

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

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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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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

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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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The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

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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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Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.

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The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

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Absence - that common cure of love.

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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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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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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

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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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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

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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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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

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He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

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