There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.Samuel Butler
When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.
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Where entity and quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.
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The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.
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Oaths are but words, and words but wind.
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To do great work a man must be very idle As well as very industrious.
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