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Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country as the behaviour of the country is most mockable at the court.

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Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.

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Hyperion to a satyr.

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No more like my fatherThan I to Hercules.

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O, the more angel she,And you the blacker devil!

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Crabbed age and youth cannot live together.

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What, is the jay more precious than the lark,Because his painted skin contents the eye?

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Here and there a cotter's babe is royal—born by right divine;Here and there my lord is lower than his oxen or his swine.

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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

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For as saith a proverb notable,Each thing seeketh his semblable.

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THE same, yet not the same — her faceHas long been held divine.

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Defining night by darkness, death by dust.

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'Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspirationThe east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.

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Glass antique! 'twixt thee and Nell Frail as flesh is,—so was Nell.

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Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him.

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It's wiser being good than bad; Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst.

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It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.

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To liken them to your auld-warld squad,I must needs say comparisons are odd.

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Some say, that Seignior Bononchini'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

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Some say, compared to Bononcini,'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!

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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?

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At whose sight, like the sun,All others with diminish'd lustre shone.

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About a donkey's taste why need we fret us?To lips like his a thistle is a lettuce.

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Everything is twice as large, measured on a three-year-old's three-foot scale as on a thirty-year-old's six-foot scale.

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Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.

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And but two ways are offered to our will,The problem still for us and all of human race.

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Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.

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Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.

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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould. * * * The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbour causes a war betwixt princes.

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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.

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We are nearer neighbours to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to stones.

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No more like together than is chalke to coles.

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Everye white will have its blacke,And everye sweet its soure.

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Another yet the same.

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The rose and thorn, the treasure and dragon, joy and sorrow, all mingle into one.

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