Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
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An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
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Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
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No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
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