I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existin >>
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water >>
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for s >>
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues >>
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happ >>
Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps >>
I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world --not much remembered when the ball is over.