When people say, "I've told you fifty times," They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," They make you dread that they'll recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, but then, no doubt, it equally as true is, a good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.

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Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.

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The best prophet of the future is the past.

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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

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The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

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

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