I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week


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LORD BYRON
Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there m...
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Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure
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There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
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The very best of vineyards is the cellar
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As soon / Seek roses in December - ice in June; / Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; / Believ...
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Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit c...
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That household virtue, most uncommon, / Of constancy to a bad, ugly woman.
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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love
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I have always laid it down as a maxim /and found it justified by experience /that a man and a woman ...
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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life -- and if Virtue is not its own r...
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I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
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In short, he was a perfect cavalier, / And to his very valet seemed a hero.
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Half dust, half deity, unfit alike to sink or soar
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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and de...
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The arena swims around him - he is gone,/ Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who w...
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I stood / Among them, but not of them; in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep: and yet a third of Life is passed in sleep
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Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded that all the Apostles would have done as they did
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This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? ...
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; / A palace and a prison on each hand.
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Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is sorrow still
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Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage...
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There is, in fact, no law or government at all [in Italy]; and it is wonderful how well things go on...
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