Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.Oliver Wendell Holmes
They love to dally with the wire
As Isaac played with Esan's hair.
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Now Landlord Porter, grave, concise, severe, Master, nay, monarch in his proper sphere, Though to belles-lettres he pretended not, Lived close to Harvard, so knew what was what
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A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle age but increases its worth and sweetens its tone
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
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