"To thee, and gentle Rigdom Funnidos, Our gratulations flow in streams unbounded."

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"What a monstrous tail our cat has got!"

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"Of all the days that 's in the week I dearly love but one day, And that 's the day that comes betwixt A Saturday and Monday."

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"God save our gracious king! Long live our noble king! God save the king!"

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"Aldeborontiphoscophornio! Where left you Chrononhotonthologos?"

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"The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.""

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"Sir, I would rather be right than be President."

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"Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people."

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"I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance."

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"To make a mountain of a mole-hill."

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"To sun myself in Huncamunca's eyes."

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"We must eat to live and live to eat."

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"Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?"

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"Republic of letters."

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"When I 'm not thank'd at all, I 'm thank'd enough; I 've done my duty, and I 've done no more."

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"Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit."

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"I am as sober as a judge."

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"Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a third dog one of the two dogs meets; With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done."

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"This story will not go down."

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"Distinction without a difference."

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"Oh, the roast beef of England, And old England's roast beef!"

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"Enough is equal to a feast."

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"All Nature wears one universal grin."

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"Penny saved is a penny got."

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"Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we."

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"Too fair to worship, too divine to love."

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"And the cold marble leapt to life a god."

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"To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen."

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"I see them walking in an air of glory Whose light doth trample on my days,-- My days, which are at best but dull and hoary, Mere glimmering and decays."

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"And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep."

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"Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! Shining nowhere but in the dark; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark!"

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"But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness."

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"Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch Till the white-wing'd reapers come!"

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"This is the place. Stand still, my steed,-- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been."

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"This is the forest primeval."

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"With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!"

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"O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands; life hath snares!"

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"A banner with the strange device."

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"But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise."

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"No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears."

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"And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away."

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"Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!"

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"The star of the unconquered will."

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"Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers."

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"Time has laid his hand Upon my heart gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations."

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"Tell me not, in mournful numbers, "Life is but an empty dream!" For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem."

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"A feeling of sadness and longing That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain."

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"The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark."

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"Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave."

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"Life is real! life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul."

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