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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

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