Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!

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Eat, drink and love...the rest is not worth a nickel

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The devil was the first democrat

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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

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'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.

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There is music in all things, if men had ears.

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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

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