God is Love -- I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is

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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

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There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

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The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

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For truth is precious and divine Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

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Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

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