Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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Where go the poet's lines Answer, ye evening tapers Ye auburn locks, ye golden curls, Speak from your folded papers.
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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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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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Thine eye was on the censer, And not the hand that bore it.
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If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
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