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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not read more
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing read more
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be read more
Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.
