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“If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.”

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There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.

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We must take our friends as they are.

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[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

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We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.

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I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.

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