A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
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I'll make the fur Fly round the ears of the old cur.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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