The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or state, or letters and the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told. It lies in the man that is all anybody can tell you about it.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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Books are the best things, well used Abused, among the worst.
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There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
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