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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

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Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

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The want of money is the root of all evil.

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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Poet

Born: December 4th, 1835

Died: June 18th, 1902

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