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" Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country. "

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" Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen. "

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" If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver. "

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" If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. "

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" I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all. "

" I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains. "

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" Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down. "

" Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire. "

" I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure. "

" Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons. "

" Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. "

" Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave? "

" Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion. "

" Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. "

" It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep. "

" Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. "

" For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour. "

" All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin. "

" 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. "

" The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go. "

" Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. "

" I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. "