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Prejudice Is Never Easy Unless It Can Pass Itself Off For Reason.

Art Must Anchor In Nature, Or It Is The Sport Of Every Breath Of Folly.

Any One May Mouth Out A Passage With A Theatrical Cadence, Or Get Upon Stilts To Tell His Thoughts; But To Write Or Speak With Propriety And Simplicity Is A More Difficult Task. Thus It Is Easy To Affect A Pompous Style, To Use A Word Twice As Big As The Thing You Want To Express; It Is Not So Easy To Pitch Upon The Very Word That Exactly Fits It.

A Proud Man Is Satisfied With His Own Good Opinion, And Does Not Seek To Make Converts To It.

If We Are Long Absent From Our Friends, We Forget Them; If We Are Constantly With Them, We Despise Them.