Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.
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Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Csar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.Joseph Addison
Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
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Music can noble hints impart, engender fury, kindle love, with unsuspected eloquence can move and manage all the man with secret art.
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Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unaveng'd amongst us.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Pray consider what a figure a man would make in the republic of letters.
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