The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.Horace Walpole
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
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How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
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Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
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The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel.
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