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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 odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a…
— Lord Byron
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I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.
— Bernard Moitessier
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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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Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are…
— Howard Zinn
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I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my…
— Jean Craighead George
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Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will…
— Aaron Carter
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Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my…
— Andrew Solomon
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When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived.
— Anne Frank
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If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when…
— Rich Little
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Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges.…
— Denis Johnson
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I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits
— Samuel Johnson
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A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little…
— Henri Nouwen
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