There goes another beautiful theory about to be murdered by a brutal gang of facts.
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The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.
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There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,
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Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.
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