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"Claret is the liquor for boys port for men but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy."
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"It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical."

"A rose trapped inside a fist."

"Look, moonI turned silver for you."

"However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for."

"Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black."
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"It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world."


"Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult."


"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."


"You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."


"Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy."


"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."
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