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In All Pointed Sentences, Some Degree Of Accuracy Must Be Sacrificed To Conciseness.

It Was The Maxim, I Think, Of Alphonsus Of Aragon, That Dead Counsellors Are Safest. The Grave Puts An End To Flattery And Artifice, And The Information We Receive From Books Is Pure From Interest, Fear, And Ambition. Dead Counsellors Are Likewise Most Instructive, Because They Are Heard With Patience And With Reverence.

Curiosity Is The Thirst Of The Soul.

Classical Quotation Is The Parole Of Literary Men All Over The World.

The Business Of A Poet Is To Examine Not The Individual But The Species; To Remark General Properties And Large Appearances.