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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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