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Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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The sweeter sound of woman's praise.
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Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.
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Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.
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I am always nearest to myself, says the Latin proverb.
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