“We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.”
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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
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.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
