I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.

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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

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Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.

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It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

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For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.

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Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

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Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

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