The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it
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I conceive that words are like money, not the worse for being common, but that it is the stamp of custom alone that gives them circulation or value.
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So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
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Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong
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Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun and is not a hothouse plant or an exotic
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