Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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  Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

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  Tears are the silent language of grief.

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  The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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  The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our d

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  The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to complimen

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  The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppos

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  The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

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  The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year

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  The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

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  The superfluous, a very necessary thing.