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

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

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

Nothing is so firmly than that which is least known.

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

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

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