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Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling...

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I live, which is the main point.

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We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

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Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

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The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.

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Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

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Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

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