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“Remorse, the fatal egg by Pleasure laid.”

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“There is no instance where men are so easily imposed upon, as at the time of their dying under the pretence of charity.”

“I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.”

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“The son of parents pass'd into the skies.”

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"Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man."

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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— Orson Scott Card

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"The challenge is shifting our appreciation: being willing to give up some of dad’s money for more of dad’s love. And, in the process, altering the psyche that makes him lovable."

— Warren Farrell

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"When you have drawn the same thing so many times that it seems that you know it by heart try to do it without the model; but having a tracing made of the model upon a thin piece of smooth glass and la…"

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