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Dreams, which, beneath the hov'ring shades of night,
Sport with the ever-restless minds of men,
Descend not from the gods. Each busy brain
Creates its own.

— Thomas Love Peacock

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Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works
Must yield at length to Time.

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