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Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.
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It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every…
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When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer…
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One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature…
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But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
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The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet…
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But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction…
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Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
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To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance…
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The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving…
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But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began…
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The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad,…
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It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every…
— George Saintsbury
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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When…
— Plato
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Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.
— Jonathan Carroll
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Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful…
— Aristotle
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A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months…
— Jane Austen
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No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.
— Fannie Flagg
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I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her…
— Jane Austen
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