A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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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 exi...
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I love not man the less, but Nature more.
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I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
