A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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Little things are great to little men.
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A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
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Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
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As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.
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