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Embellish truth only with a view to gain it the more full and free admission into your hearer's minds; and your ornaments will, in that case, be simple, masculine, natural.

— Hugh Blair Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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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.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

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