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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.
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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
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Society is now one polish'd horde, Form'd of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem, but always what you see.
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Alas! They were so young, so beautiful, so lonely, loving, helpless, and the hour was that in which the heart is always full, annd, having o'er itself no further power, prompts deeds eternity can not annul.