It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
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That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
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Among well-bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised authority concealed attention given to each in his turn and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagernes.
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