Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
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The cannibals burn their enemies and eat them in good-fellowship with one another meek Christian divines cast those who differ from them but a hairs-breadth, body and soul into hell-fire for the glory of God and the good of his creatures It is well that the power of such persons is not co-ordinate with their wills . . .William Hazlitt
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
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