"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true."
-Honore de Balzac
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"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."
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"No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman."
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"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."
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"First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time."
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"A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning."
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"I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry."
-John Donne
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"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
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"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."
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"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
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"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."
-Emily Dickinson
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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
-Emily Dickinson
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