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Malcolm’s Quotes

“While pensive poets painful vigils keep,
Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.”
― Alexander Pope, The Dunciad

tags: depression, enlightenment, poetry, satire

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“Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

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“You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

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“In politics, nothing is contemptible.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: honesty, obama, opinion, politics

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“It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.”
― Benjamin Disraeli, The Young Duke: A Moral Tale, Though Gay

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