"Than all Bocara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcand."

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"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed."

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"When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over."

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"No clap of thunder in a fair frosty day could more astonish the world than our declaration of war against Holland in 1672."

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"In a just cause the weak o'ercome the strong."

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"Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand."

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"The truth is always the strongest argument."

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"Nobody loves life like an old man."

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"Think not that thy word and thine alone must be right."

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"A short saying oft contains much wisdom."

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"A lie never lives to be old."

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"Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot."

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"War loves to seek its victims in the young."

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"Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted."

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"The dice of Zeus fall ever luckily."

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"No oath too binding for a lover."

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"There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched."

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"Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all."

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"It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced."

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"If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief."

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"Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life."

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"If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles."

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"A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck."

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"Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong."

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"And there 's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame; On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die."

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"And ye sall walk in silk attire, And siller hae to spare, Gin ye 'll consent to be his bride, Nor think o' Donald mair."

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"The real Simon Pure."

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"It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him."

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"In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue?"

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"We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal."

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"Magnificent spectacle of human happiness."

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"As the French say, there are three sexes,--men, women, and clergymen."

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"Looked as if she had walked straight out of the ark."

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"Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best."

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"Men who prefer any load of infamy, however great, to any pressure of taxation, however light."

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"He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again."

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"To take Macaulay out of literature and society and put him in the House of Commons, is like taking the chief physician out of London during a pestilence."

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"Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanilla of society."

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"Macaulay is like a book in breeches. . . . He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful."

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"Truth is its [justice's] handmaid, freedom is its child, peace is its companion, safety walks in its steps, victory follows in its train; it is the brightest emanation from the Gospel; it is the attribute of God."

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"In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm [at Sidmouth], Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused; Mrs. Partington's spirit was up. But I need not tell you that the contest was unequal; the Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington."

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"Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me,--I have dined to-day."

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"It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding."

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""Heat, ma'am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.""

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"Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers."

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"The Smiths never had any arms, and have invariably sealed their letters with their thumbs."

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"My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon."

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"The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid twenty-two per cent, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death."

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"That knuckle-end of England,--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur."

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"No one minds what Jeffrey says: . . . it is not more than a week ago that I heard him speak disrespectfully of the equator."

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