George the First knew nothing, and desired to know nothing did nothing, and desired to do nothing and the only good thing that is told of him is, that he wished to restore the crown to its hereditary successor.
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
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Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. His name, like the shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground.
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