Poetry should only occupy the idle.
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Such is my name, and such my tale.Lord Byron
All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.
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I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
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My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.
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