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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of more than common interest, ennui is sure to have its joy in adding embellishments. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?
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Style is the gossamer on which the needs of truth float through the world.
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Beauty, like truth and justice, lives within us; like virtue, and like moral law, it is a companion of the soul.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
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Born:
October 3, 1800
Died:
January 17, 1891
(aged 90)
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