Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
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Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
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I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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