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- The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and…
- It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where…
- I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and…
- There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this…
- The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
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