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Of brains (if brains they had) he them beguiled, And turn’d a nation’s shallow joy to gloom.
Lord Byron • Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
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his chiselled lips curled in exquisite disdain.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”
John O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
Speak your truth quietly and clearly
Laurence Endersen • Pebbles of Perception: How a Few Good Choices Make All The Difference
His conceptions were ardent but ludicrous, and his memory, aided, as he honestly acknowledged, by his invention, was an inexhaustible fund of entertainment.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
He grew more and more enamoured of his own beauty, more and more interested in the corruption of his own soul.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
Can Volume, Pillar, Pile, preserve thee great? Or must thou trust Tradition’s simple tongue, When Flattery sleeps with thee and History does thee wrong?