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“In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.”

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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

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