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“There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.”

Alexander Pope

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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.

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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

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Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,…

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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the…

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When man of slender visits you / Nothing on earth that one can do / In well he’ll hide, or watery hole / And he will eat your mortal soul / so if thou seest the man so thin / pray you don’t see him again / for he is not from world we know / he cometh from far…

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I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers.

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“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or your dancing shoes. Pull out your camera or your computer or your pottery wheel. Today, tonight, after the kids are in bed or when your homework is done, or instead of one more video game or…

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“In the parking lot, she drove and parked in a dark area with no other cars around. She reclined her seat, and listened to music. Outside there were trees, a ditch, a bridge; another parking lot. It was very dark. Maybe the Sasquatch would run out from the woods. Chelsea wouldn’t be afraid. She would calmly watch the Sasquatch jog…

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It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but…

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I have to meditate before I go to bed, always. I have to let the day go and let the eternal in.

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Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed…

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