Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
From Lord Byron
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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