Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
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He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.
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He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
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There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
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