Quote #35

Of the Corporation of the Goosequill--of the Press, my boy,...of the fourth estate...There she is-the great engine-she never sleeps. She has her ambassadors in every quarter of the world-her couriers upon every road. Her officers march along with armies, andher envoys walk into statesmen's cabinets. They are ubiquitous.

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  1. Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
  2. As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.
  3. Yes, I am a fatal man, Madame Fribsbi. To inspire hopeless passion is my destiny.
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  5. It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
  6. 'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry--every man of every nation has done that--'tis the living up to it that is diff…
  7. Although I enter not, Yet round about the spot Ofttimes I hover; And near the sacred gate With longing eyes I wait, Expectant of her.
  8. 'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

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