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- There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
- A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of; it heightens…
- I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher…
- Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
- Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for…
- Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into…
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