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• An unreflected light did never yet Dazzle the vision feminine.
  -- Sir Henry Taylor (1800-?) -- Philip Van Artevelde, Part i, Act i, Sc. 5...
• We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up
  As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,-- For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore....
• Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world, Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind A voice that in the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages.
  -- Sir Henry Taylor (1800-?) -- Philip Van Artevelde, Part i, Act i, Sc. 7...
• He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. Eternity mourns that.
  'T is an ill cure For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them....
• The world knows only two,--that 's Rome and I. -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- Sejanus, Act v, Sc. 1
• I am not in the roll of common men. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry IV -- Act iii, Sc.
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• I will maintain it before the whole world. -- Jean Baptiste Moliere (1622-1673) -- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Act iv, Sc.
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• I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry IV -- Act i, Sc. 2...
• Every tub must stand upon its bottom. -- Charles Macklin (1690-1797) -- The Man of the World, Act i, Sc.
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