I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!
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Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.Joanna Baillie
I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!
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How do men act, when they together stand,on the last perch of this swiftly-sinking wreck; Do they not bravely give their parting cheer, And make their last voice loud and bo; Idly sound; Amidst the hollow roarings of the storm.
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The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss.
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Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own it is the ennobled offspring of self-love though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.
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Thinks't thou there are no serpents in the world; But those that slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them; There are who in the path of social Iife; Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting th.
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