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Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

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Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

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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...more

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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.