Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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What cities, as great as this, have ... promised themselves immortality Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others.... Here stood their citadel, but now grown over with weeds there their senate-house, but now the haunt of every noxious reptile temples and theatres stood here, now only an undistinguished heap of ruins.
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Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
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A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
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Dont let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
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Silence is become his mother tongue.
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