"But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of."
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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.“
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"I love not man the less, but Nature more."
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"Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored."
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"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."
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