The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
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We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
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Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.
Charles Lamb
Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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Those evening bells those evening bells How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime.
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I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed.
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