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What we call human reason, is not the effort or ability of one, so much as it is the result of the reason of many, arising from lights mutually communicated, in consequence of discourse and writing.

— Hugh Blair Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (1784)

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The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.

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It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise still higher, is perfectly bombast.

Dissimulation in youth is the forerunner of perfidy in old age; its first appearance is the fatal omen of growing depravity and future shame.

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Between levity and cheerfulness there is a wide distinction; and the mind which is most open to levity is frequently a stranger to cheerfulness.

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