There is no defense against reproach but obscurity it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
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Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.Joseph Addison
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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