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“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”

Edmund Burke · Fear

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

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When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

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