The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
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Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
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Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.
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The world is his who has money to go over it.
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The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
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