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- Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to…
- Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest…
- The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrevocable.
- Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes…
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