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Old things need not be therefore true,
O brother men, nor yet the new;
Ah! still awhile the old thought retain,
And yet consider it again!

— Arthur Hugh Clough

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Thou shalt have one God only; who
Would be at the expense of two?

The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.

Amours de Voyage (1858)

Allah is great, no doubt, and Juxtaposition his prophet.

Amours de Voyage (1858)

A world where nothing is had for nothing.

The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich (1848)

That out of sight is out of mind
Is true of most we leave behind.

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