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His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.
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His Labor is a Chant - his Idleness - a Tune - oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon!
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His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
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His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
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His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.
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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.''
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His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
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His opinion of verses.
That he wrote all his first in prose, for so his master Camden had learned him. That verses stood by sense without either colours or accent; which yet other times he denied.Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden -
His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!
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His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.
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His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.
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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
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His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.
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His wicked sense of humour suggests exciting sex
His fingers focus on her
Her touches
He's Venus as a Boy!Songs Venus as a Boy, from the CD single Venus as a Boy -
Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
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History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.
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Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
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