Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

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796 Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
812 Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
776 I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
802 Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
784 How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country!

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