It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Custom reconciles us to everything.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.
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