“That man's the best cosmopolite who loves his native country best.”
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“But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.”
“Have I not found a happy earth? I least should breathe a thought of pain.”
“I have got so far as to lose the distinction between right and wrong.”
“Was it politics that had caused this atrophy of the moral senses by disuse?”
“I know of nothing useful in life except what is beautiful or creates beauty.”
“The matter was too serious for any treatment but a joke, and joking made it more serious still.”
“Of all weaknesses he most disliked timid and half-hearted faith.”
“A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum.”
“There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.”
“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance.”
“Nor fame I slight, nor for her favors call; she comes unlooked for, if she comes at all.”
“Unblemished let me live, or die unknown; O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!”