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Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.


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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.



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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.



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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.



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'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!



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