“His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.”
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Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.