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" Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school. "
Own
School
Head
" By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. "
Than
Sense
Nonsense
" He would be a very absurd legislator who should pretend to set bounds to his country's welfare, lest it should perish by knowing no bounds. "
Welfare
Country
Pretend
" How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. "
Well
Improve
Historians
" I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. "
Dancing
Old
Age
" I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due. "
Admire
Way
Politicians
" Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. "
Humor
Imagination
Man
" In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. "
Science
Truth
Last
" I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing. "
Juvenile
Miles
Search
" It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it. "
Conquer
Than
Know
" It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink. "
Her
She
Said
" Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie. "
Lie
Truth
Acting
" Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. "
Men
Bills
Credit
" Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. "
Want
People
Other
" Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. "
High
Foot
Ambition
" Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be taught to believe in false gods and in the power of saints before they will learn to worship their images. "
Believe
Learn
People
" Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. "
Character
Poetry
Rules
" Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. "
Way
Art
Beautiful
" The establishment of a society for the encouragement of arts will produce great benefits before they are perverted to mischiefs. "
Encouragement
Society
Arts
" The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon. "
Sinners
Your
Work
" The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. "
Things
Well
Life
" The wisest prophets make sure of the event first. "
Wisest
Event
Prophets
" This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. "
World
Think
Feel
" Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. "
Vice
Virtue
Been
" We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second. "
Thoughts
Second
Our
" When a Frenchman reads of the garden of Eden, I do not doubt but he concludes it was something approaching to that of Versailles, with clipped hedges, berceaus, and trellis work. "
Something
Work
He
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