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... better die at once. A great poet has truly declared that constancy is no virtue, but a fact. —Tuckerman. Frozen by distance. —Wordsworth. Short absence quickens love, long absence kills it. —Mirabeau. We often wish most for our friends ...
... better die at once. A great poet has truly declared that constancy is no virtue, but a fact. —Tuckerman. Frozen by distance. —Wordsworth. Short absence quickens love, long absence kills it. —Mirabeau. We often wish most for our friends ...
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... better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs. But, sir, you will allow that some players are better than others? Yes, sir; as some dogs dance better than others. —Johnson ...
... better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs. But, sir, you will allow that some players are better than others? Yes, sir; as some dogs dance better than others. —Johnson ...
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... better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love. —Arthur Helps. Admiration is ...
... better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love. —Arthur Helps. Admiration is ...
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... better than the rest of the world possesses. Nobody is vain of possessing two legs and two arms, because that is the precise quantity of either sort of limb which everybody possesses. —Sydney Smith. Affectation is certain deformity ...
... better than the rest of the world possesses. Nobody is vain of possessing two legs and two arms, because that is the precise quantity of either sort of limb which everybody possesses. —Sydney Smith. Affectation is certain deformity ...
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... better than a parvenu. —Froude. Breed is stronger than pasture. —George Eliot. The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither their good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity. —Sallust. Nobility of birth ...
... better than a parvenu. —Froude. Breed is stronger than pasture. —George Eliot. The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither their good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity. —Sallust. Nobility of birth ...
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