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Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey quotes: Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey quotes: An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.

An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.

Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey quotes: Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.

Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.

Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey quotes: Nothing is so firmly than that which is least known.

Nothing is so firmly than that which is least known.

Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey quotes: Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.

Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.

Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey quotes: The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn.

The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn.

Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey quotes: Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.