“Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.”
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His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
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.
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
