If I make the lashes darkAnd the eyes more brightAnd the lips more scarlet,Or ask if all be rightFrom mirror after mirror,No vanity's displayedI'm looking for the face I hadBefore the world was made.
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I would be -- for no knowledge is worth a straw --Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.
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You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
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Locke sank into a swoon The Garden died God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.
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O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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