Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. The Old Curiosity Shop
As a goose is not frightened by cackling nor a sheep by bleating, so let not the clamour of a senseless multitude alarm you. Fragment
It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words. The Picture of Dorian Gray
Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined. Book VII
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