Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. Friendship demands the ability to do without it.
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The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones they are for what they are they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose. It is perfect in every moment of its existence.
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There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
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Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From Evils which never arrived.
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