Criticism is often not a science it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants they are the whole of their race.
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Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
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The same vices that are gross and insupportable in others we do not notice in ourselves
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The majority of men devote the greater part of their lives to making their remaining years unhappy.
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