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The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
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And what is friendship but a name,
A charm that lulls to sleep,
A shade that follows wealth or fame,
And leaves the wretch to weep?
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They would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.
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Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Taught by that Power that pities me,
I learn to pity them.
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A kind and gentle heart he had,
To comfort friends and foes;
The naked every day he clad
When he put on his clothes.
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The sigh that rends thy constant heart
Shall break thy Edwin's too.
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To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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By the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat.
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The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentance to her lover,
And wring his bosom, is — to die.
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The dog, to gain some private ends,
Went mad, and bit the man.
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Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
Georges Bataille
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Born:
November 10, 1728
Died:
April 4, 1774
(aged 45)
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