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“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”

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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

Great

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It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

God

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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

God

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It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Death