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If we must have a tyrant let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

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The lapse of ages changes all things - time language the earth the bounds of the sea the stars of t

The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing "about around and underneath" man, except man himself.

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Maidens like moths are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

Absence - that common cure of love.

Absence - that common cure of love.

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For truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

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