"They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week."

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"Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study."

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"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life."

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"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."

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"If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me."

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"Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure."

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"Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."

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"Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds."

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"I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere."

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"A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty."

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"'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman."

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"I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull."

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"In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me."

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