“Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.”
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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
I hate women because they always know where things are.
We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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.
