Quote #36

Send me no more reviews of any kind. - I will read no more of evil or good in that line. - Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years.

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  1. The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses that pull, Each tugs in a different way- And the greatest of all is John Bull!
  2. Because He is all-powerful, must all-good, too, follow? I judge but by the fruits-and they are bitter- Which I must feed on for a fault not…
  3. The best of prophets of the future is the past.
  4. Who killed John Keats? 'I,' says the Quarterly, So savage and Tartarly; ''Twas one of my feats.'
  5. Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twent…
  6. He seems To have seen better days, as who has not Who has seen yesterday?
  7. And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power Which could evade, if unforgiven, The patient search and vigil long Of him…
  8. Sublime tobacco! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest.

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