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“ Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. ”

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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

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He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.

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Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man.

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When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

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