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If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.
If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.
I would that I were low laid in my grave.
I am not worth this coil that's made for read more
I would that I were low laid in my grave.
I am not worth this coil that's made for me.
One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes.
One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes.
An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.
An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.
All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the read more
It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the first.
The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities!
They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn read more
The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities!
They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn
breath upon the planet. (the Devil and Shakespeare.)
O, how thy worth with manners may I sing
When thou art all the better part of me?
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O, how thy worth with manners may I sing
When thou art all the better part of me?
What can mine own praise to mine own self bring,
And what is't but mine own when I praise thee?
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to read more
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.