I think Steele shone rather than sparkled. - William Makepeace Thackeray

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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.

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What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

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Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?

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