Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
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He paid some attention to the management of his collieries in the Midland counties, excusing himself for this taint of industry on the ground that the one advantage of having coal was that it enabled a gentleman to afford the decency of burning wood on his own hearth.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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The American father. . . is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.
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