"Style is the dress of thoughts."

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"He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence."

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"Despatch is the soul of business."

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"The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom."

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"Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value."

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"Sacrifice to the Graces."

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"Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well."

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"I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world."

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"Unlike my subject now shall be my song; It shall be witty, and it sha'n't be long."

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"I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow, who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.""

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"Chapter of accidents."

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"The dews of the evening most carefully shun,-- Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun."

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"For pointed satire I would Buckhurst choose, The best good man with the worst-natured muse."

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"And ever since the Conquest have been fools."

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"Angels listen when she speaks: She 's my delight, all mankind's wonder; But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder."

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"A merry monarch, scandalous and poor."

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"Here lies our sovereign lord the king, Whose word no man relies on; He never says a foolish thing, Nor ever does a wise one."

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"Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense."

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"And choose an author as you choose a friend."

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"The multitude is always in the wrong."

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"Remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend."

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"My God, my Father, and my Friend, Do not forsake me at my end."

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"Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at his cross and earliest at his grave."

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"Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door! Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.""

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"Whom unmerciful disaster Followed fast and followed faster."

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"To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome."

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"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted--Nevermore!"

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"Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,-- Perched, and sat, and nothing more."

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"All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities."

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"Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness."

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"The wisdom of our ancestors."

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"The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion."

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"There never was a bad man that had ability for good service."

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"Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude."

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"I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets."

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"My vigour relents,--I pardon something to the spirit of liberty."

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"All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth."

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"I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others."

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"The men of England,--the men, I mean, of light and leading in England."

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"The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone."

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"The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue."

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"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

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"They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man."

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"I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people."

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"To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust."

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"It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration."

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"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."

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"He was not merely a chip of the old block, but the old block itself."

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"That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound."

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""War," says Machiavel, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature."

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