Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
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