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My dear Sir, take any road, you can't go amiss. The whole state
is one vast insane asylum.
My dear Sir, take any road, you can't go amiss. The whole state
is one vast insane asylum.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
There is a pleasure, sure,
In being mad, which none but madmen know!
There is a pleasure, sure,
In being mad, which none but madmen know!
It is a common calamity; at some one time we have all been mad.
[Lat., Id commune malum; semel read more
It is a common calamity; at some one time we have all been mad.
[Lat., Id commune malum; semel insanivimus omnes.]
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
O, hark! what mean those yells and cries?
His chain some furious madman breaks;
He comes--I see read more
O, hark! what mean those yells and cries?
His chain some furious madman breaks;
He comes--I see his glaring eyes:
Now, now, my dungeon grate he shakes.
Help! Help! He's gone!--O fearful woe,
Such screams to hear, such sights to see!
My brain, my brain,--I know, I know
I am not mad but soon shall be.
I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
Some are born mad. Some remain so.
Some are born mad. Some remain so.
