Those who complain of the shortness of life, let it slide By them without wishing to seize and make the most of its golden moments.
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We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people. Use may in part reconcile us to our own tediousness, but we do not adopt that of others on the same paternal principle. We may be willing to sell a story twice, never to hear one more than once.William Hazlitt
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
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The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
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The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this The one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
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Reflection makes men cowards.
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Man is an individual animal with narrow faculties, but infinite desires, which he is anxious to concentrate in some one object within the grasp of his imagination, and where, if he cannot be all that he wishes himself, he may at least contemplate his own pride, vanity, and passions, displayed in their most extravagant dimensions in a being no bigger and no better than himself.
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