The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned … - Charles Caleb Colton

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When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder.

Charles Caleb Colton

The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.

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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

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