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O blithe new-comer I have heard,I hear thee and rejoice.O cuckoo, shall I call thee bird,Or but a wandering voice

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Here falling houses thunder on your head,And here a female atheist talks you dead.

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Great abilites are not requisite for an Historian for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any degree...

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But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

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Zounds I was never so bethumped with wordsSince I first called my brother's father dad.

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You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life for there is in London all that life can afford.

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My philosophy is to make the most of all that comes, and the least of all that goes.

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Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems.

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Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

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Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.

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I am a kind of burr I shall stick.

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If you have 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

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The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.

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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

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At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper.

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Well, the principle seems the same. The water still keeps falling over.

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It was a nation and race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

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It were all oneThat I should love a bright particular starAnd think to wed it, he is so above me.

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A thousand moral paintings I can showThat shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune'sMore pregnantly than words.

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All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.

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My apprehensions come in crowdsI dread the rustling of the grassThe very shadows of the cloudsHave power to shake me as they passI question things and do not findOne that will answer to my mindAnd all the world appears unkind.

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Words came out of the womb of matterAnd whether a man dispassionatelySees to the core of lifeOr passionatelySees the surface,The core and the surfaceAre essentially the same,Words making them seem different . . .

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Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most under-employed, talent in the world.

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