My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.


Thomas Hood

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A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
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A hungry stomach rarely despises rough food.
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A greater liar than the Parthians.
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A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.
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Oh, God! that bread should be so dear! And flesh and blood so cheap!
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But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?
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And daisy-stars, whose firmament is green.
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The cowslip is a country wench.
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Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing ton...
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Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.
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While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime ...
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Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!
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O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
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For my part getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.
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Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!
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Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
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'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.
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There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.
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A moment's thinking is an hour in words.
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Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.
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The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago.
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To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
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I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.
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How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!
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The violet is a nun.
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Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that...
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The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now br...
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Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; Fashioned so slenderly, Young and so fair!
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One more unfortunate Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death!
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What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched--my eyeballs burn, I scent no flowery gu...
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And however are Dennises take offence, A double meaning shows double sense; And if proverbs te...
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Jasmine is sweet, and has many loves.
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The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.
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'Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man, with his bumps upon his sconce, Has lived so long, an...
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Alas! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun. Oh! it was pitiful! N...
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There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.
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Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise; But waking flow'rs, At morning h...
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I remember, I remember, / The house where I was born, / The little window where the sun / Came peepi...
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But she is vanish'd to her shady home Under the deep, inscrutable; and there Weeps in a midnig...
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All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.
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Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
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Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
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A word once spoken cannot be recalled.
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Never go to France - Unless you know the lingo, If you do like me, You will repent by jingo
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For one of the pleasures of having a rout, / Is the pleasure of having it over.
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It's very convenient and saves me from having to plan and cook meals.
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Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
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Being used but sisterly salutes to feel, Insipid things - like sandwiches of veal
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For here I leave my second leg, / And the Forty-second Foot.
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Alas! my everlasting peace / Is broken into pieces.
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She stood breast high amid the corn.
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PAXTON HOOD
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will ...
PAXTON HOOD
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over...
PAXTON HOOD
Everyone is screwed up, the ones who try to say they aren’t, they’re the ones who are the worst ...
HOLLY HOOD
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote ove...
PAXTON HOOD
Our squad members are getting access to trauma and grief counselors. It's becoming a very difficult ...
CHARLES HOOD
There are so many cruel decisions parents have to make when their child dies. The funeral director r...
ANN HOOD
The city says we are partners in all this, but we have no input.
BILL HOOD
Data-intensive graph problems abound in the Life Science drug discovery and development process.
LEROY HOOD
The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody t...
GAVID HOOD
Your genome sequence will become a vital part of your medical record, thereby providing critical inf...
LEROY HOOD
I have a fondness for writing about precocious, troubled teenagers, who are alienating, but kind of ...
ANN HOOD
I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop...
ANN HOOD
Dead bodies do get a grayish blue/purple hue because blood pools in the capillaries and the body sta...
ANN HOOD
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will ...
PAXTON HOOD
I learned a lot doing 'Wolverine,' and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to...
GAVIN HOOD
Clearly they're losing share to the specialty guys, and they're suffering really from a downturn in ...
WAYNE HOOD
The first question after every screening is, 'Where can I buy the soundtrack?', and that definitely ...
GAVIN HOOD
We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally...
LEROY HOOD
All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those th...
LEROY HOOD
My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of stre...
ANN HOOD
I am pleased to stand before you and report: Jasper County is in good standing.
GEORGE HOOD
The departure could not have come at a more inopportune time.
WAYNE HOOD
You don't want to make a big deal out of it because it sounds indulgent. But the fact of the matter ...
GAVIN HOOD
The biggest thing this has in common with almost all of our records is the dualities are still there...
PATTERSON HOOD
What we are doing is unheard of in the history of recovery operations. I searched for space shuttle ...
CHARLES HOOD
Although it seems to be a ghetto movie, it very quickly becomes a much more intimate story, the stor...
GAVIN HOOD
Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.
LEROY HOOD
If you know the mother's genome and the father's genome, and you see that the children have ...
LEROY HOOD
Ok look man, you clearly are not hard up for money, you’re driving a range rover, so call whoever ...
HOLLY HOOD
We are asking the Legislature that, when a special session is called, to appropriate funds to the Su...
JIM HOOD
I suppose from some quarters that would mean Democrats.
WILL HOOD
Loving someone isn’t a hard task, it’s not a chore, you don’t wake up one day and decide to br...
HOLLY HOOD
Trust, you give it and you take it away. You believe it with everything you have in you, you allow y...
HOLLY HOOD