Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!Joseph Addison
I have often thought, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the Middle of Winter.
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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us.
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Sir Roger told them, with the air of a man who would not give his judgement rashly, that much might be said on both sides.
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Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
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