There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
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He is to the great poet, what an excellent mimic is to a great actor. There is no determinate impression left on the mind by reading his poetry. . . . A great mind is one that moulds the minds of others.
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The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
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