If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

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The devil was the first democrat

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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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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.

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There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.

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Life is too short for chess.

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Think not I am what I appear.

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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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