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Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest. - [Brevity] It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women. - [Manners] To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. - [Love] White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments. - [Fortitude] With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument. - [Gentleness] High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city. [Fr., L'Art supreme Seule a l'eternite Et le buste Survit la cite.] - L'Art [Art] Down comes rain drop, bubble follows; On the house-top one by one Flock the synagogue of swallows, Met to vote that autumn's gone. - Life, a Bubble--A Bird's-Eye View Thereof [Swallows] Oh, raise your deep-fringed lids that close To wrap you in some sweet dream's thrall; I am the spectre of the rose You wore but last night at the ball. - Spectre of the Rose, from the French [Roses] Eyes so transparent, That through them one sees the soul. [Lat., Ils sont si transparents qu'ils laissent voir votre ame.] - The Two Beautiful Eyes [Eyes]
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