The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual community, the most sufficing passport to their favour must rest on the mixture of a little easily-intelligible portion of mawkish sentiment with an absolute negation of reason and knowledge.
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Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
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I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
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I can live without it all -- love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.
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Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
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Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.
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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
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She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
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At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.
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Choice of you shuts up that peacock-fan The future was, in which temptingly spread All that elaborative nature can.
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A peacock who rests on its feathers is just another turkey.
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News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.
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Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
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He's got a real good jumping ability and made a big-time play in a real crucial time of the game.
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