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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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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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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.