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- It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of proverbs. In the…
- So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each,…
- I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one…
- What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided…
- What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
- Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they blacken the darkness,…
- People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority... don't seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be pitied for their…
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