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“What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.”

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And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.

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“Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love. ”

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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

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But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.

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