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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

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The history of art is the history of revivals.

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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Poet

Born: December 4th, 1835

Died: June 18th, 1902

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