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We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.
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While all the pomp and circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me; and all of past reflection, all of future dread, made the whole grandeur of the martial scene, and all the delusive seduction of martial music, fill my eyes frequently with tears.
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The mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.
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'Do you come to the play without knowing what it is?' 'O yes, Sir, yes, very frequently; I have no time to read play-bills; one merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.'
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
June 13, 1752
Died:
January 6, 1840
(aged 87)
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