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Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.


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Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.



What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.



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Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.





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