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Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.
Patience is sorrow's salve.
The best things carried to excess are wrong.
Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit... →
Genius is independent of situation.
Genius is of no country.
Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.