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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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Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce…
— G. Campbell Morgan
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We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the…
— Samuel Adams
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Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well…
— Hippocrates
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Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or…
— Walter Raleigh
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Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.
— Vita Sackville-West
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If we want to be a person of integrity, we act as if we have integrity and we will be a person…
— Royden G. Derrick
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Old men ought to be explorers.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well…
— Hippocrates
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Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and…
— Hippocrates
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Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Generally there is in man a divinity which strives to push him onward and upward. We believe that this power within him…
— David
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A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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