The way to procure insults is to submit to them a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
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If the schemes of Utopians could be realized, the tone of society would be changed from what it is, into a sort of insipid high life. There could be no fine tragedies written nor would there be any pleasure in seeing them. We tend to this conclusion already with the progress of civilization.
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There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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