In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
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O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair.William Congreve
Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.
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He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
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Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
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