"Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burns brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweetheart, are surest, and old lovers are soundest."

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"Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men."

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"I saw him now going the way of all flesh."

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"Condemn you me for that the duke did love me? So may you blame some fair and crystal river For that some melancholic, distracted man Hath drown'd himself in 't."

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"'T is just like a summer bird-cage in a garden,--the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out."

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"That execrable sum of all villanies commonly called a Slave Trade."

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"Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.""

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"A liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest."

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"What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all."

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"No, let the monarch's bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold."

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"Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out."

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"A fellow in a market town, Most musical, cried razors up and down."

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"No pent-up Utica contracts your powers, But the whole boundless continent is yours."

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"He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers."

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"Big-endians and small-endians."

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"So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum."

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"Libertas et natale solum: Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em."

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"I 've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my garden's end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood."

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"So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns."

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"A college joke to cure the dumps."

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"'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit."

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"Hobbes clearly proves that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature."

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"Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension."

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"Hail fellow, well met."

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"And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together."

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"I 'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me "spade.""

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"That is as well said as if I had said it myself."

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"I always like to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the Church to preserve all that travel by land or by water."

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"'T is happy for him that his father was before him."

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"I shall be like that tree,--I shall die at the top."

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"I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world."

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"I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs."

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"She looks as if butter wou'dn't melt in her mouth."

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"She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork."

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"Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives."

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"A penny for your thoughts."

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"Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole."

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"I mean you lie--under a mistake."

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"She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day."

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"Books, the children of the brain."

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"They say a carpenter 's known by his chips."

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"There 's two words to that bargain."

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"'T is as cheap sitting as standing."

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"As boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon their tails."

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"Sharp 's the word with her."

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"She pays him in his own coin."

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"You must take the will for the deed."

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"A nice man is a man of nasty ideas."

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"I have fed like a farmer: I shall grow as fat as a porpoise."

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"It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first."

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